The wash sale rule states that if you buy or acquire a substantially identical stock within 30 days before or after you sold the declining stock at a loss, you generally cannot deduct the loss.

The wash sale rule generally disallows tax deductions for losses from the sale or other disposition of stock or securities if you buy the same asset (or substantially similar one) within 30 days ...

The tricky part arises if you believe that your stock, despite the loss, is still a good investment. Because of the IRS' so-called "wash-sale rule," you can't repurchase those shares (or a ...

Many of the stocks that lose the most in a given year will jump after tax-loss selling ends. Less than two weeks remain to tax-loss harvest your losing stocks, and it’s not as easy as it may look.