On Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 7:10:04 PM UTC-7, dumbstruck wrote:
> Investment observations after doing fed taxes with a lot of cap loss harvesting:
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> - Muni dividends are included for purposes of health care subsidy denial.
They are also included when figuring out how much of one's SS is taxable.
> - Non muni but exempt dividends can be taxed at a really low rate; even 0.
Do you mean "qualified dividends" ?-- typically paid by a corporation and taxed similarly to long-term capital gains - which does have a 0% bracket for folks whose ordinary income is in the 10 and 15% brackets (i.e., for a single person, under around $38k)