🕒 פורסם בתאריך: 30/12/2024 04:18
So I'm holding a stock that rose significantly since I bought it and I think it might drop significantly in the near future, so I'm thinking of selling it.
I don't actually need all the money right now, so I was thinking of selling a deep-in-the-money covered call that will lock in profit and a bit of premium at the risk of it dropping below the strike.
For the sake of simplicity let's say the stock is now at $80, I bought it at $20.
I write a covered call for next year with a strike of $40 for a price of $42.
I get $4200 now and another $4000 when (if) it's exercised in the future instead of selling 100 shares for a total of $8000 right now, sounds like a good deal.
So I guess my main question now is how is this taxed?
I asked ChatGPT how proceeds from writing options are taxed, sometimes it says it's a flat 25% capital gains on the whole thing, other times it says it's an income tax of up to 50% marginal rate.
In both cases I can imagine scenarios where the total amount of tax is different from that of outright selling the stock.
Any other considerations I missed?
I don't actually need all the money right now, so I was thinking of selling a deep-in-the-money covered call that will lock in profit and a bit of premium at the risk of it dropping below the strike.
For the sake of simplicity let's say the stock is now at $80, I bought it at $20.
I write a covered call for next year with a strike of $40 for a price of $42.
I get $4200 now and another $4000 when (if) it's exercised in the future instead of selling 100 shares for a total of $8000 right now, sounds like a good deal.
So I guess my main question now is how is this taxed?
I asked ChatGPT how proceeds from writing options are taxed, sometimes it says it's a flat 25% capital gains on the whole thing, other times it says it's an income tax of up to 50% marginal rate.
In both cases I can imagine scenarios where the total amount of tax is different from that of outright selling the stock.
Any other considerations I missed?