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Ordinary income treatment of loss from small business corporation stock sale

Program Information

Popular name

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Program Number

TC.079

Program objective

The baseline tax system limits to $3,000 the write-off of losses from capital assets, with carryover of the excess to future years. In contrast, the Tax Code allows up to $100,000 in losses from the sale of small business corporate stock (capitalization less than $1 million) to be treated as ordinary losses and fully deducted.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

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Additional program information

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Tax Expenditures

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