Capital gains taxes

Both asset holders and practitioners have to educate themselves on the tax and recordkeeping rules around cryptocurrencies.

The Treasury Secretary said Wednesday that the administration has no plans to eliminate the preferential tax treatment of carried interest profits, three days after President Trump said he wanted to do just that.

The Schedule D instructions had the older, higher tax rates for investors that were changed by the 2017 tax law.

The program offers qualifying taxpayers who have capital gains income a highly flexible way to defer and eliminate a portion of the federal gain and possibly state gain.

The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, Ron Wyden, is reviving a plan that would tax wealthy individuals annually on their investments, instead of when those assets are sold.

Bill Gates, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders all want the rich to pay more taxes, but Gates is saying what the Democratic candidates appear to be thinking: Go for the capital gains rate.

The country hopes to reverse swelling outflows to international tax havens.

The Microsoft co-founder believes it’s appropriate for wealthy people to pay much higher taxes.

The exclusion for gain of qualified small-business stock may become a common part of more deals.

Economists question how much the change would juice the economy, especially if the president tries to do it without Congress.