What is loss harvesting?  What do you think the benefit might be to loss harvesting?

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Please help me with the following discuission questions:  Current or past business, where you have seen an example of them Harvesting the investment?  What is loss harvesting?  What do you think the benefit might be to loss harvesting?

 

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Loss harvesting is used to reduce tax liability on investment. In tax-loss harvesting, you sell your stocks/funds units at a loss to reduce your tax liability on capital gains. It is a method to offset the capital gains made on equity against the suffered to pay a lesser amount of tax.

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