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WSJ Your Money Briefing

Year-End Money Moves That Could Cut Your Tax Bill

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Individual investors can reduce their tax bill when filing in 2024 by selling certain assets and choosing between the standard deduction or itemizing their deductions. Wall Street Journal columnist Laura Saunders joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.0

This year's market rally minimized stock losses that many individual investors might have used to lower their tax bill.

0:47.0

Instead, those tax savings might come about as a result of lost value in bonds.

0:53.7

Because the Fed started raising interest rates in 2022

0:57.4

and it was just very steady and lots of bond funds lost money

1:00.6

so people still have net losses on their bonds.

1:03.4

So if you're looking to harvest losses to offset gains,

1:06.8

that's the place to look.

1:08.5

We'll talk to Wall Street Journal columnist Laura Saunders,

1:11.2

after the break. Let's put out this campfire.

1:25.0

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1:38.0

your State Forester and the Ed Council. Losses in your portfolio can help lower your tax bill when you file your return,

1:50.4

but 2023's market rally makes that process a little more tricky.

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