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Originally posted by Cletus Miller
Is that true? Passive investors get to deduct investment costs from OI rather than capital gains?
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It depends. Some of the costs have to be allocated to the cost of acquiring the asset, which is capital. But the biggest chunk of money is from the tax-exempts, so they don['t deduct it at all. Of course, they also don't pay any tax on their income or gains.