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Selling and buying, 30-day rule

sarahTT · 2022-01-20 10:28:04

(If this would be better discussed in "Cutting Tax", please, mods, move it there. Thanks.) I have just learned about this 30-day rule re selling an equity and buying it again within 30 days. I have for the current tax return just such a case and the main problem I an now having is that the chain of buys/sales straddles two…

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sarahTT Posts: 95 Forumite

25 January 2022 at 2:19PM

@eskbanker Yeah, I see what you mean: every sale is a potential CG event in itself and so should be treated separately. I was aiming more for the principle (and also giving me a useful check on the correctness of separate calculations... if I do them :-) ).

Again thanks to all for helping out, appreciated. Now, where's the next tax problem waiting for me?

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