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The biggest hurdle that investors face is paying tax on the gains on their long-term investments. Yet the tax laws actually give heirs a huge tax break when they inherit shares of stock or other ...

Fortunately, calculating your cost basis is much simpler than this. Photo: Bryan Alexander, Flickr If you want to calculate how much you've gained or lost on an investment, you'll need to know your ...

The cost basis of an investment or asset is the amount of the initial investment, or the original purchase price. It's an important number in tax planning for individual investors, business owners, ...

Although many investors consider land to be a distinct asset class from other types of real estate, from a taxation perspective, all real estate is the same. As such, you can expect to do the same ...

The IRS issued final and temporary regulations providing rules for brokers to report bond premium and acquisition premium as well as governing information reporting of transactions involving debt ...

If you want to calculate how much you've gained or lost on an investment, you'll need to know your cost basis. It's important for your tax records, too. Let's run through a very simple example.