6 - Securities Analysis, Taxation & Federal Law Flashcards
This deck focuses on tax implications for investing and gifting, federal regulations, as well as quantitative analysis and investment risks.
Tax rate increases as income increases
Progressive tax
Taxes that are levied equally regardless of income
Regressive taxes
Three examples of regressive taxes
Sales, excise, property
Two examples of progressive taxes
Income, estate
Three types of income subject to taxation
Earned, passive, portfolio
Two sources of passive income
Limited partnerships, rental property
Three taxable forms of portfolio income
Interest, dividends and capital gains
Minimum holding period for lower long-term capital gains tax rate
1 year and 1 day
Short-term holding period for capital gains tax computation
1 year or less
Maximum amount of capital loss that can be used to offset current income each year
$3,000
Maximum tax rate applicable to long-term capital gains
20%
Period of time for which capital losses can be carried forward
Indefinitely
Transaction which disqualifies capital loss because substantially similar securities are repurchased within 30 days
Wash sale
Number of days before or after a sale for a loss for which a purchase of substantially similar securities must be avoided
Thirty days
Under the wash sale rule, purchases of any of these four securities of the same issuer are considered substantially identical to purchases of the issuer’s stock
Long calls, rights, warrants and convertible bonds
Three accounting methods available for determining which shares to liquidate
FIFO, share identification, average basis
Method of share identification assigned by the IRS if no other method is chosen
FIFO
Maximum tax rate that applies to qualified dividends
20%
Cash dividends that are eligible for taxation at the same rate as long-term capital gains
Qualified
Minimum holding period of stock for dividends to be classified as qualified
Sixty-one days
Tax implication of stock splits and stock dividends
Reduction to cost basis; no current taxation
The amount of investment in property; used to determine the gain or loss at time of sale
Cost basis
The accounting method that allows an investor to select which shares to liquidate for tax purposes
Share identification
Shares that would be liquidated first to result in the lowest possible capital gain
Shares with highest cost basis
The process of adjusting the cost basis of a bond purchased at a discount
Accretion
The process of adjusting the cost basis of a bond purchased at a premium
Amortization
A change of two of these three municipal bond characteristics avoids the wash sale rule
Issuer, coupon, maturity
The cost basis at maturity of a municipal bond purchased at a price of 108 with 8 years to maturity
Cost basis = par
The date which determines the amount of the tax deduction for charitable donations of appreciated property
Date the donation is made
The amount of tax deduction available for gifts of securities made to family members or others
None
The recipient’s cost basis for gifts of securities from family members or others
Original cost basis of the donor
The cost basis of securities that are left to an heir
Market value of the securities on the date of the death of the owner
The current annual gift tax exclusion amount
$16,000
The tax provision that allows married persons to transfer their entire estate to the surviving spouse at death without taxation
Unlimited marital deduction
The person responsible for payment of gift taxes due
Donor
Amount of dividends that may be excluded from taxation by U.S. corporations
50%
Tax calculation performed to ensure that deductions that have been claimed do not reduce tax liability beyond a certain minimum level
Alternative minimum tax computation
Interest on bonds of these two issuers is taxable at the federal, state and certain local levels
Corporate and agencies
Interest on bonds of this issuer is taxable at state and certain local levels, but is exempt from taxation at the federal level
Municipal
Interest on bonds of this issuer is taxable at the federal level but exempt from taxation at the state and local level
U.S. Government
Two investments that generate passive income
DPPs and real estate
Amount of gift tax that applies to gifts between married couples
No gift tax regardless of amount
A short-term economic contraction
Recession
The four phases of the economic cycle
Expansion, peak, trough, and contraction
Longer term, severe economic contraction
Depression
A nation’s annual output of all goods and services
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Measures the general rate of increase or decrease in prices paid for certain standard goods
Consumer Price Index
General increase in the level of prices
Inflation
Two economic conditions that generally accompany deflation
Severe recession, rising unemployment
The three types of economic indicators
Leading, lagging and coincident
Type of indicator that predicts a trend in the economy
Leading
Leading, lagging or coincident indicator? The money supply
Leading
Leading, lagging or coincident indicator? Employment levels
Coincident
Leading, lagging or coincident indicator? Corporate profits
Lagging
Leading, lagging or coincident indicator? Industrial production
Coincident
Leading, lagging or coincident indicator? Average duration of unemployment
Lagging
Leading, lagging or coincident indicator? New orders for consumer goods
Leading
Leading, lagging or coincident indicator? Stock prices
Leading
Leading, lagging or coincident indicator? Personal income
Coincident
Leading, lagging or coincident indicator? GDP
Coincident
Leading, lagging or coincident indicator? Manufacturing and trade sales
Coincident
Leading, lagging or coincident indicator? Ratio of inventories to sales
Lagging
Economist who theorized that aggregate demand controls employment and prices
John Maynard Keynes
The originator of monetarist theory
Milton Friedman
The economist associated with supply side economic theory
Arthur Laffer
Three tools used by monetarist theory to regulate the economy
Reserve requirement, discount rate, federal open market operations
Believes market forces should determine prices of all goods; federal government should reduce spending and taxes
Supply side economics
Two critical fiscal policy tools used to impact economic performance
Level of taxation and government spending
Economic theory that promotes strong government involvement in economic policy
Keynesian economics
Economic theory that promotes less government spending and lower taxes
Supply side economics
Most readily available type of money
M1
Acts as agent of the US Treasury
Federal Reserve Board
Regulates the U.S. money supply
Federal Reserve Board
Conducts the U.S. government’s open-market operations
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)
Impact on the money supply of FOMC purchase of securities
Increases