Example sentences for: capital-gains

How can you use “capital-gains” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the Dialogue on the "Capital-Gains Tax," Michael Kinsley is quite correct in noting that, strictly speaking, the capital-gains tax is merely one particular manifestation of the overall income tax.

  • Though Rubin has bucked Wall Street by opposing a capital-gains tax cut, he comes from Wall Street, and most of his closest friends and advisers are Wall Streeters, and he generally heeds the street.

  • Those who claim to want a cut in the capital-gains tax rate because it will increase investment and not because it is a handout to the rich could gain a lot of credibility if they advocated reducing the rate only on future capital gains.

  • A centerpiece of both tax cuts is a severe trimming of the capital-gains tax, which seems like a very odd decision at a time when short-term investing is on the rise and companies are having absolutely no trouble raising capital.

  • Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, pooh-poohing the new study, said that the best solution to the problems it raises--assuming they are problems--would be to cut the capital-gains tax, spurring greater investment.


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