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Holding period
Holding Period 1. In a long position, the period of time during which one owns a security. The holding period is important to calculating an investment's returns and performance. The holding period also applies to taxation on capital gains, as long-term investments are not taxed as heavily as short-term ones. 2. In a short sale, the period of time between the borrowing of securities and the return to their owner. That is, the holding period is the entire time elapsed for all the transactions of a short sale. Holding period. A holding period is the length of time you keep an investment. In some cases, a specific holding period is required in order to qualify for some benefit. For example, you must hold US savings bonds for a minimum of five years to collect the full amount of interest that has accrued. Holding Period The period of time property has been owned for income tax purposes. The holding period determines if gain or loss from the sale or exchange of a capital asset is long or short term. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The investor's advisors may attempt to argue, based on dicta in certain cases, that they should be able to tack on their holding period as partners to their holding period as tenants-in-common to establish a long term holding period and the requisite investment intent. A taxpayer who acquires QSB stock by gift or inheritance or from a partnership distribution is treated as having acquired it in the same manner as the transferor and has to include the transferor's holding period in calculating eligibility for the Sec. To do so, the client must satisfy the one-year capital gain holding period requirement, which states that the property's holding period commences on the date that the client closes that property's purchase escrow. |
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