Like-Kind Property
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See: Life-Kind Exchange.
A high school cafeteria: jocks sit with jocks; drama kids sit with drama kids; etc. Everyone self-softed by like-kind.
Now, to the financial world. The term refers to two assets that resemble each other enough that they can become almost indistinguishable, at least for tax purposes.
This $650,000 house vs. that $650,000 house. $10,000 invested in this stock vs. $10,000 invested in that stock. For tax purposes, these pairings would be considered like-kind property.
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Finance a la shmoop....what is a 1035 exchange? well why don't they
give these things a name like what pathos is there in a number well it [Arrow pointing to star in the solar system]
makes your life miserable remembering all these numbers and frankly doesn't
make our life any easier writing pithy epithets about them you know as we go
but all right we'll try here we go...A 1035 exchange is a swap more
specifically it's a swap relating to life insurance policies or annuities you
have one annuity or life insurance policy and want to exchange it for [Two life insurance policy documents]
another of similar value so you use at 1035 exchange to do it's like a legal
structure why well because a 1035 is tax-free.. tax-free yeah that's good why
would there be a tax when you're changing policies well an insurance
policy is just another form of an investment and with it comes a gain
usually over time so if you're exchanging an in theory you [Insurance policies exchanging]
could be realizing a gain that's taxable so if one policy fit your feet from age
25 to 45 and then it tripled in value over that time well you'd have
"realized a gain" if you sold it for cash and then use that cash to buy
another and you'd have a whole lot less cash left over after the feds you know
taxed you and being able to deploy that 1035 exchange tax loophole well you get
to keep all the value in that policy and use it to buy all the value of another
policy thank you insurance industry lobby and yeah you'll be dead but well [Richie Richpants gravestone]
others will too