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Sideways Startups: Donating Private Stock

Gust

Donations of private stock enable investors, founders and employees to support charitable causes and contribute to the community while receiving simultaneous benefits in the form of substantial cash savings from reduced taxes as well as bypassing capital gains taxes. These assets often have a relatively low cost basis (e.g.

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Sideways Startups: An Investor’s Dilemma

Gust

Current US tax regulations stipulate capital gains tax rates for most angel investment with positive returns. For many of those companies that fail, investors can write-off their investment against other income (ordinary income or capital gains, depending on the situation). CAUTION: I am not a lawyer or accountant.

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Remote Work, Not Taxes, Threatens Cities: Why That Threat has Peaked but Others Remain

This is going to be BIG.

They make money off of equity and stock option gains, as well as investment partnership interests that are taxed at lower capital gains rates. Owners tend to net out at a third less or more in net housing costs after tax incentives. The very wealthy don’t make their entire income through wages.

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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

All four companies were in Los Angeles (or adjacent … Santa Barbara) and our community has now matured and regularly produces billion dollar+ outcomes. Interim liquidity plus long-term capital gains work really, really well.

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5 Critical Tips to Reduce Your Business Taxes This Year [WEBINAR]

Up and Running

The advantage there is that we can designate part of their net profit that they can distribute to the owner as either tax-free distributions, or as owner salary. Same thing with net profits or net losses. The last one here is your long-term capital gain. Everything has to be equal ownership. percent.

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Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing

Austin Startup

Ok, without further delay, here are the seven lessons learned: The number one mistake I’ve seen new angel investors make is that they invest in too few startups with too much capital in each. I’ve limited our net worth in startup investing to around 5% of our wealth. Karma will inevitably kick in.