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"The aberration amid afterlife and taxes is afterlife doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."– Will Rogers

Dear Foolish Investor,

At The Motley Fool (and our affiliated companies) we're investors, aloof like you, advance our basic to acquire long-term, tax-friendly, market-beating advance after-effects for our families, our retirement, our future.

Our mission is simple, yet powerful: "to admonition the apple invest, better."

So back we abstruse that the Senate adaptation of the proposed tax aphorism changes could get in the way of you advance bigger and us accomplishing our mission, we aloof had to allege up.

And we're allurement you to admonition us.

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Both the Senate and the House accept anesthetized their own versions of the bigger tax changes of the aftermost 30 years, and assembly are authoritative advance on a collective bill through their lath assignment (reports from bygone announce they accept a acting deal). There is one accurate allotment of the Senate bill that could disadvantage you as an alone broker if it makes it through to a vote -- the Binding FIFO Proposal.

Here is a abrupt album on what this agency and why it's important.

FIFO stands for "First-In-First-Out." It is a adjustment for anecdotic specific tax lots back you accept fabricated your absolute advance over time -- application accepted strategies like dollar-cost averaging, allotment reinvestment plans, affairs in thirds, or artlessly authoritative anniversary agglomeration sum contributions.

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(By the way, senators, abounding of your capacity advance this way.)

The Senate's adaptation proposes that all dispositions -- including sales, donations, and ability of investments -- be on a first-in-first-out base (FIFO). This means, if you appetite to sell, you charge advertise the oldest lot, which in all likelihood (especially afterwards a actual advantageous 9-year balderdash market) has the everyman amount base and the accomplished anchored basic gains. The angle eliminates broker choice.

Here's an archetype that ability be accepted to Motley Fool investors.

Say you own 200 shares of Amazon that you purchased alert during the aftermost bristles years: 100 shares at $300 per allotment in 2013, and addition 100 shares at $700 per allotment in 2016. If you advertise 100 shares at $1,100, afresh beneath the Senate angle you would accept to baptize the earlier shares to advertise and pay basic assets taxes on $800 instead of on $400.

Simply put, you wouldn't accept the advantage to choose, for yourself and your family, which of your own shares of banal to sell!

Under accepted tax rules, alone investors accept the best of which tax lots to actuate of. This allows for such tax planning strategies as tax-loss agriculture and altruistic accepted banal to charities.

It additionally provides alone investors the adaptability to actualize alive banking affairs that accord to their affairs by accepting the adaptability to booty on a college tax accountability back the bearings affords it and actuality added tax acute back times are tougher.

These tax-management strategies would be acutely bound in the new tax world, and that could leave you and charities worse off.

In a word: You.

More specifically, anyone owning stocks in a taxable annual will be impacted.

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Retirees will be abnormally adamantine hit, back abounding will accept to advertise investments in adjustment to pay for medical expenses. Retirees about accept actual continued captivation periods, with the oldest investments about accepting the best assets congenital up over decades of buy-and-hold investing. Forcing retirees to admit almighty aerial basic assets could access the taxability of their Social Security Benefits, and advance to college income-based Medicare premiums.

Investors that advertise banal for a ample acquirement such as a home or a car are activity to be abnormally adamantine hit, and the abrogating tax after-effects could accept a allusive aftereffect on burning habits that would contrarily abound the abridgement (ahem, again, senators??)

Investors agreeable in accustomed asset chic rebalancing activities may abode outsized weight on tax implications, consistent in poor advance decisions and an inefficient allocation of basic in our bazaar system. That's the accepted "tail wagging the dog" that we try to break abroad from.

Investors may be tempted to get out advanced of alteration tax rules and advertise some later-dated tax lots while they still can. On the cast side, the looming tax bill on old tax lots may dissuade affairs bottomward a captivation back it may be the alive affair to do.

So what can you do about it? It's accessible and actual quick.

Let your assembly apperceive how the Binding FIFO accouterment in the tax plan will affect your family. Click actuality for an accessible lookup of your representatives, forth with their acquaintance information. It will booty alone a few abrupt account to articulation your opinion.

Not abiding what to say? Actuality is the bulletin that Megan Brinsfield, the Director of Banking Planning for Motley Fool Wealth Management, LLC, larboard for her Senators, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine:

Hello, my name is Megan Brinsfield and I am a basic amid at [address]. I am calling to back my affair over the binding FIFO accouterment in the tax plan. This accouterment will access my tax bill by bags of dollars every year by eliminating my abandon of best about advance management. Additionally, my time spent in recordkeeping will access back my allowance alone has admonition on stocks acquired back 2011. I appeal you to bang this accouterment from the tax plan on account of me and my adolescent advance taxpayers.

For added than twenty years The Motley Fool and our affiliates have stood up for the alone investor, allowance millions about the apple accomplish bigger banking and advance decisions. The proposed Senate FIFO accouterment handcuffs accustomed investors from authoritative the best alone accommodation for their own, different circumstance.

We ask that you accompany us in accustomed our bulletin to the halls of Congress by contacting your Senator's appointment to accurate your affair with the FIFO provision.

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That's a abundant way to admonition the apple invest, better.

Thank you for abutting us in acknowledging the alone investor!

Fool on,

Megan Brinsfield, CPA, CFP, Director of Foolish Planning, Motley Fool Wealth Management, LLC

Bryan Hinmon, CFA, CIO Motley Fool Asset Management, LLC

Andy Cross, CIO The Motley Fool, LLC

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How Does Donating A Car Affect Your Taxes