The only part of the sale of a business that would be subject to capital gains taxes are the real property assets that business owned and had an increased in cost basis from what the business originally paid for it. Outside of real estate, almost every asset a business owns is a depreciating asset and would have a lower value at time of sale than the cost basis the business purchased the asset for. If you were horrible at business you could get screwed by a buyer who tricks you into a price allocation that puts a higher value on those assets to help his own taxes in the future. Either way, you aren’t paying much capital gains at all on a business sale, especially on small business. So basically for most businesses this tax would only apply to the amount of the business sale allocation that is attached real estate on every dollar past $400,000 that the real estate (specifically) increased in value since the business originally purchased it. This small portion of the business sale would be taxed at a roughly a 7% higher rate. And that’s only if the business was worth more than $1m plus cost basis to begin with, and assuming they have a horrible accountant who doesn’t know how to structure payments over a longer period of time to reduce tax liability. This is scratching the surface of what ways the tax liability would be decreased further. TLDR : this tax would have a very minimal effect on most business owners selling their business. https://smartasset.com/taxes/how-to-avoid-capital-gains-tax-on-business-sale As a side note, it’s a sign of some pretty unhealthy thought patterns to act so confident about something when you clearly literally have no conception of where to even start to say how this would affect someone selling their business. Is it overconfidence in your abilities? Pathological lying? or just pure delusion and you just really do not understand how much you don’t know about a topic. Only a fool doesn’t know how much he doesn’t know.

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on that happy note . . .

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im gonna walk by ARK HQ tomorrow should i leave cathie a love note

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Man that public trading app is awesome they don't sell your options untill the bell rings ....take note robin da hood

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before I lose my train of thought. On a related note, another reason that liquidity will dry up in Q2 is due to the new Dealer Registration requirement from the SEC: "identify certain activities that would cause persons engaging in such activities to be “dealers” or “government securities dealers” and be subject to the registration requirements of Sections 15 and 15C of the Act, respectively, **in connection with certain liquidity-providing roles**" this will affect many countless wealthy family offices which didnt have to register as a dealer before, hence they were able to do most of these trades under the radar- I get the feeling this is the way they prefer to operate. This will have chilling effect on the entire hedgefund-treasury liquidity provider angle.

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Note: Used the money to pay off rental real estate that was coming up for loan renewal.

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Note that if you keep your capital gains below $1 million a year this wouldn't impact you. Which means it won't impact any of you. Or me.

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INTEL has a completely different business model from AMD. 1)Intel's foundry business, due to a decade of mismanagement and operational inefficiency is now lagging behind TSMC for at least 4 years and they are trying to catch up, this is gonna take a lot of capex that may not materialize. 2) As an IDM, Intel competes directly with its customers which may repel big players like AMD 3) a further note why IDM is not the favorable model: leading-edge tech like TSMC's GAAFET N2 burns money to develop, where does the money come from? Higher margin mature nodes like N7, N5. For Intel, once it develops a new node it shifts its capacity to it, thus having much lower margins than TSMC.

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Note to self: Don't short stocks

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Last INTC earnings and this one it was good to take profits at open. I almost always try to close winning trades at open but something to note. There might be a day trade on calls after bad earnings it seems to get a 1-2% bump after the drop.

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