The IRS announced a raft of changes to tax rules for tax year 2026 on Thursday, including higher brackets for capital gains tax. A quick reminder of how these work. If you sell an investment you hold ...

Investors who sell an investment at a profit in a taxable account incur a capital gain that they must report on their tax returns. For investments held longer than one year, the long-term capital ...

You may owe capital gains tax on any realized gain on the sale of an asset, but not on unrealized capital gains. Long-term capital gains — that is, on assets held for a year or longer — are taxed at a ...

The IRS released its numbers despite the ongoing government shutdown Here's what you should know about next year's tax rates on long-term capital gains. Attention, investors. Income-tax rules are here ...

Tracking your portfolio growth, is important but knowing when your gains become taxable is just as critical. There is a key difference between gains you have locked in by selling and gains that only ...

Tax rules for wealth transfers and investment profits are shifting in 2026, and the changes are unusually generous. Bigger inflation adjustments, combined with new law, will raise the thresholds for ...

Home values have climbed for decades. Now some want the tax break to climb too.

Key Takeaways Republican lawmakers are urging the Department of Treasury to index capital gains to inflation.Indexing capital ...

Long-term capital gains tax rules sit at the center of many investment decisions, from when to sell a rental property to how to rebalance a 401(k) rollover. For 2025 and 2026, the basic rate structure ...