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Taxable Account Negative Basis

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(@jj_ejm009_jj0)
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If I have a taxable account with a net unrealized loss, do I enter this as a negative unrealized gain or as a capital loss carryover with zero unrealized gain



   
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(@ricke)
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I use the capital loss carryover. Pralana correctly gives me the $3000 deduction against ordinary income and uses up the loss when I have capital gains. Note that Pralana applies gains/losses in the following year to avoid iterative calculations. Over a lifetime, that's not a problem, but it can give funny answers when there is a step change in realized capital gains, so you need to be careful. That one-year-later workaround is supposed to go away in next year's web version.



   
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