I have sold investments in an IRA and want to know if I can take capital gains on them. I reinvested the money in another investment and had taken disbursements from the ones that I sold over the period of time that I owned it.

it.======>>>>>>>> A taxable capital gain occurs when your ira investment is sold and a profit is realized. say, you bought 200 shares of Apple stock in July 2006 when it dropped to $50 per share. In Dec 2016, you sold the Apple for $320 per share, realizing a $54k profit. If the Apple shares were held in a regular brokerage account, you would have to pay capital gains taxes on that $54kgain on your 2016 income tax return

I know that. What I was asking was does the same rule apply if the transaction takes place entirely within an IRA not a brokerage account.

A brokerage account holds your stock investments, but it's not considered a tax-sheltered account like an ira; I mean withdrawing money from it, by itself, isn't a taxable event the same way taking money out of your checking account doesn't mean extra taxes. However, it is a taxable event any time you sell an investment in the brokerage account, regardless of whether you actually take the money out of the brokerage account or not.however, One of the most advantageous IRS rules for IRAs is that you don't have to pay taxes on any of your stock sales in the year you sell them. For example, if you buy 100 shares of stock at $30 per share and sell them for $100, you have a $7k taxable gain. In a regular account, you'd have to pay capital gains tax on your profit if you held the stock for longer than a year. For shorter-term trades, you'd have to pay tax at your ordinary income tax rate, which could be considerably higher. However, in an IRA, you don't have to pay tax on the transaction UNTIL you WIthDRAW money from the account, at which point it is reportable as ordinary income.

That still doesn't answer my question - can I take a capital gains loss on an investment that I sell during the year to off set distributions from that same investment. I know that I am not required to take the gain when I sell it but this is the opposite case.

So, when withdrawing from traditional IRA , can the capital loss now be used to offset taxable income??i guess IT DEPENDS. in general, There is no loss in an IRA until every penny has been withdrawn from every investment in your IRA and distributed to you, thus making your IRA balance zero. As long as you have a positive balance, there is no loss: everything has to come out. 1) say, you ever made nondeductible contributions to your IRA because you were ineligible to make a deductible contribution (i.e., say, income too high, pension plan coverage at work so onetc), then the sum of all these contributions is your basis in your IRA. and that your deductible contributions, if any, are not part of the basis. After the last distribution from your IRA (I mean the one that empties all your IRA accounts and reduces your IRA balance to zero), total up all the distributions that you received (don't forget to include the nontaxable part of each distribution that represents a return of the basis). If the sum total is LESS than your basis, you have a loss that can be deducted on Sch A of 1040 as a Mis. Deduction subject to the 2% AGI threshold.2)as you can see, you can only deposit cash into an IRA and take a distribution in cash from an IRA. Now,say, if your IRA owns stock, you can take a distribution by having the shares transferred from your IRA account in your brokerage to your personal account in the brokerage. However, the amount of the distribution, as reported by the brokerage to the IRS, is the value of the shares transferred as of the time of the transfer, ( I mean the FMV of the property that is transferred out of the IRA) and this is the amount you report on your income tax return. Any capital gain or loss on those shares remains inside the IRA because your basis (in your personal account) in the shares that came out of the IRA is the amount of the distribution. If you sell these shares at a later date, you will have a (taxable) gain or loss depending on whether you sold the shares for more or less than your basis. In effect, the share transfer transaction is as if you sold the shares in the IRA, took the proceeds as a cash distribution and immediately bought the same shares in your personal account. But the important point is that any capital gain or loss within the IRA cannot be used to offset a gain or loss in your taxable accounts. What happens inside the IRA stays inside the IRA Regular IRA's are pre-tax, you cannot deduct anything from them

So, if I am reading that last reply right, in order to realize any capital gains loss, I would have to close out the IRA in toto and would then be able to use the resulting losses. Would that also apply to losses realized prior to closing the account if they occurred in the same tax year?

So, if i read the last post properly, I would have to close out the IRA in order to claim capital gains losses. Would that also include losses incurred on sales made during the same tax year?

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I have sold investments in an IRA and want to know if I can take capital gains on them. ===========>>>?In general, Transactions made within the IRA are not taxable you do not pay any CG tax when you sell assets within your IRA. Even if your investments inside of your IRA make CGs and increase in value, this is not CGs as far as the IRS is concerned since the money inside of your IRA grows tax-free. However, distributions are usually subject to regular income taxes. I mean. any withdrawals made from the account are taxed as ordinary income.also, sell orders, however, may still result in commissions/ fees. As an illustration, say, you have a mutual fund in a IRA that has grown to $15K from your initial contribution of $5K, and you now want to sell it and withdraw the money from your IRA acct.In this case, your entire distribution would be taxed at your marginal tax rate for ordinary income. So, for example, say you?re in the 22% marginal tax bracket, your $15K withdrawal would cost you $3.3K in taxes and net you just $11.7K. Your state might want a piece of that, too




I reinvested the money in another investment and had taken disbursements from the ones that I sold over the period of time that I owned it.======>>>>so aslongas you , as yu said, reinvested the money in another investment and had taken disbursements from the ones that you sold over the period of time that you owned it,then the CG tax can apply to profits from the sale of assets gains realized from the sale of stocks, bonds, precious metals, real estate, and property.or etc. .

So, if i read the last post properly, I would have to close out the IRA in order to claim capital gains losses.==========?... You can't take IRA investment losses as a capital loss. Instead, you claim IRA investment losses as a miscellaneous deduction, subject to the 2 percent income exclusion.please read as newly replied above.


Would that also include losses incurred on sales made during the same tax year?=======..as mentioned above.