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What is the tax percent on commodity gains?


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Expert Nedra Toney-jordan's Answer:

Commodities are section 1256 contracts taxed 60 percent at long-term capital gains tax rates and 40 percent at short-term capital gains tax rates (i.e., ordinary income tax rates).

 

Nedra Toney-jordan, Professor

Georgia

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