• Wrench@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Yearly would be fine, but it could be done quarterly to. The capital gains tax on stock profits is already done quarterly.

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      5 months ago

      You know what, I’ve thought about it some more and you have a point. Securities valuation could be averaged out over a period of time and then treated as cash reserves for taxation purposes. That’s actually not as difficult as I thought it might be. Minor additional burden on investment firms.