The wash-sale rule refers to selling an investment you held at a loss and then buying it back in the 30 day period before or after your original sale date. A gain you realize when you sell an ...

Bob Carlson researches all facets of retirement finances. Few taxpayers were interested in or needed to know the “wash sale” rules, until recently. When stock prices rose steadily, the wash ...

Less than two weeks remain to tax-loss harvest your losing stocks, and it’s not as easy as it may look. The easy part of tax-loss selling is getting rid of a loser by Dec. 31. So long as you hold the ...