Household Tax Opportunities

Household Tax Opportunities for Harvesting and Wash-Sale Review

Review harvestable losses, gain candidates, embedded gains, bracket room, NIIT distance, and wash-sale risk from saved household lots.

Tax opportunities are only useful when the lot, account, date, and tax-context assumptions are visible.

This workflow reads the saved household snapshot and surfaces diagnostic candidates without creating trades, advice, or a saved run.

What the diagnostic surfaces

  • Harvestable losses using cost basis as the percentage denominator.
  • Gain-harvest candidates and embedded-gain exposure from saved lots.
  • Wash-sale warnings that separate already-triggered violations from forward replacement risk.

Tax context shown in the workflow

  • Headroom to the next federal bracket when current 2026 or historical brackets are selected.
  • Distance to the NIIT threshold when the bracket mode supports it.
  • Snapshot staleness and member-account warnings so users know when the diagnostic may be incomplete.

How it fits with the household workflow

Household Tax Opportunities is a read-only diagnostic. It pairs with Household Setup for saved accounts and lots, and with the Household Allocator when the next step is a reproducible backtest or trade-plan simulation.

Interpretation boundary

The page does not recommend a transaction, determine tax filing treatment, or replace professional review. It surfaces candidates and assumptions that need inspection.

FAQ

Does this tool harvest losses or place trades for me?

No. It is a read-only diagnostic that surfaces tax candidates from a saved household and its latest holdings snapshot. It intentionally avoids trade-execution actions and does not place or recommend trades.

What does it surface?

Four classes of candidates: harvestable losses that clear the account thresholds, gain-harvest candidates that fit estimated LTCG bracket room, embedded gains flagged on concentration, and wash-sale risk for each loss candidate.

Does it decide which replacement security is substantially identical?

No. Wash-sale matching is ticker-exact plus the household's configured substitute map. It can surface wash-sale warnings, but it does not determine whether a replacement security is substantially identical under the IRS rules.

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