How Can Electing to Include Long-Term Capital Gains and Qualifying

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Essay

How can electing to include long-term capital gains and qualifying dividends in the computation of net investment income be beneficial to taxpayers?

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Definitions:

Consequences

Outcomes or results that follow from an action or condition, often with implications for responsibility and decision-making.

Psychoanalytic Theories

A set of theories which focus on the unconscious motivations that shape personality and behavior, originally developed by Sigmund Freud.

Biological Theories

Concepts that explain phenomena or behavior strictly in terms of biological processes and heredity.

John Watson

An American psychologist and one of the founders of behaviorism, known for his theory that human behavior can be studied and modified through conditioning.