How to Use capital gain in a Sentence

capital gain

noun
  • This is not a capital gains tax.
    — Shehan Chandrasekera, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • And clients don’t want to pay capital gains.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Yeah, there's a lot of capital gain there.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The well-off got cuts in the capital gains tax and the wealth tax.
    — Cole Stangler, TIME, 8 July 2024
  • What’s the capital gain on that?
    — Elizabeth Prann, The Hill, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Indeed, that has long been seen as a flaw in our capital gains tax law.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • If the daughter sells it for that amount, no capital gain tax would be owed.
    — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2020
  • That means long-term capital gains may be taxed at higher rates than stocks or bonds.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2026
  • These numbers are just to give you an idea of how capital gains taxes work.
    — Liz Weston Of Nerdwallet, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
  • That means that capital gains rules apply to any gains or losses.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • If one took the zero rate, heirs did not get the step-up basis in capital gains.
    — Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Because under the tax code, capital gains are not taxed at death.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Avoid holding funds that spin out hefty capital gains in this account, though.
    — Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The top rate for long-term capital gains was left untouched at 20%.
    — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Those sales will only be taxed as a long-term capital gain at a 20% tax rate.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 16 Nov. 2021
  • For its holders, there is no gift, estate, or wealth tax, and there is no capital gains tax.
    — Alex Ledsom, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Collectibles are taxed like short-term capital gains but are capped at 28%.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 16 Nov. 2025
  • But that was a huge drop in capital gains revenue from the previous year.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024
  • Revenue from a sales tax fluctuates far less than the tax on capital gains.
    — sacbee, 9 July 2018
  • But then the bubble burst, leading to a sharp drop in capital gains tax revenue.
    — Jeff Stein, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Proceeds from the deal could then be treated as a capital gain, the thinking goes.
    — Sabrina Willmer, Fortune, 30 June 2021
  • That allows them to be taxed at a low capital gains rate rather than a much higher income tax rate.
    — John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2017
  • Big gains build up because the investor doesn’t want to sell and pay capital gains taxes.
    — Liz Weston, latimes.com, 24 June 2018
  • As with the sale of any art investment, that capital gain or loss would be taxed as a collectible.
    — Kelli María Korducki, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Long-term capital gains rates apply when an investor has owned an asset for more than one year.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 16 Nov. 2025
  • If an investor buys a share for $3 and sells it for $5, the capital gain is $2.
    — Laura Saunders and Richard Rubin, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Democrats, however, vowed to oppose the change to how capital gains are taxed.
    — Fox News, 31 July 2018
  • That may understate the value of capital gains for the wealthy.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The top rate for long-term capital gains was left untouched at 20 percent.
    — Bloomberg.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Missouri taxes income from wages and salaries but not capital gains.
    — ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026

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