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Old 11-17-2007, 10:31 PM
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Default Re: Shorting a stock and it goes to Zero

Such situations are now taxable events. Since you do not cover in this situation, there is no offsetting transaction and thus the trade never closes and no taxable event occurs.

That tax-free loophole is closed now, and shorted stocks that go to zero are now set up as de facto taxable events.
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