Timeline for Paying taxes on dividends even though your capital gains were $0?
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| Apr 8, 2016 at 16:31 | comment | added | littleadv | There shouldn't be an adverse difference in tax treatment now with the qualified dividends. | |
| Apr 8, 2016 at 13:03 | comment | added | user32479 | As an add-on note: The way that mutual funds deal with dividends and capital gains distributions is one reason that there's been a lot of interest in ETFs as an alternative. I'm not saying that one or the other is better for everyone independent of their situation, but if this behavior bothers you, at least consider ETFs. There's a ton of information about them and comparisond to mutual funds on this site and across the web. | |
| Apr 8, 2016 at 11:31 | history | answered | Eric Johnson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |