Capital Loss

Definition: Capital Loss

Capital Loss

Noun

1. The amount by which the purchase price of an asset exceeds the selling price.

Specialty Definition: Capital loss

In finance, a capital loss is a financial loss incurred when an asset is sold for less than its original purchase price. Capital losses are most often incurred in stock and bond investments.

In taxation in the United States, capital gains are taxed, but if a taxpayer has suffered from capital losses in the same year, he can offset the gains with the losses to reduce his tax. If the losses exceed the gains for an individual, he can take up to a $3,000 tax deduction to correspond with the losses.

Normal depreciation of the value of an asset is not considered a capital loss, so if a taxpayer purchases a car for $30,000 and sells it a year later for $15,000 and this is a reasonable price for a year-old used car of that type, no tax deduction may be taken.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Capital Loss

Modern Translations: Capital Loss

Language		Translations for "capital loss"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		tõkeveszteség. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		キャ�"ネ判 (cabbage, cabin, cabinet size, camel, camisole, capital gain, capital letter, capitalism, captain, CAPTAIN System, caption, capture, caramel, caravan, caraway, carburetor, career, career government employee, career woman, carrier, carry, character, Character and Pattern Telephone Access Information System, character display, character in a manga or anime, light mountain-climbing shoes). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		キャ�"タルロス . (various references)

Pig Latin		apitalcay osslay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Capital Loss

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-l-o-p-s-s-t"
	-2 letters: localists, plastisol.
	-3 letters: aplastic, apostils, capitals, capitols, coalpits, localist, plastics, pollists, potassic, scallops, tapiocas, topsails.
	-4 letters: apicals, apostil, asocial, capital, capitol, casitas, catalos, citolas, coalpit, coastal, optical, pascals, pastils, pistols, plastic, pollist, postals, psoatic, sapotas, scallop, scillas, scotias, socials, solatia, spacial, spastic, spatial, spitals, stoical, tapalos, tapioca, topical, topsail.
	-5 letters: allots, apical, ascots, aspics.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-l-o-p-s-s-t"
	+2 letters: postclassical.
	+4 letters: astrophysically.
	+5 letters: postsynaptically.
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