Smell of Desperation, page-176

So you agree … to offset capital losses agains capital gains you must do that first BEFORE applying any 50% discount.

To help illustrate what I’m saying let’s say on the sale of some shares from say company JAM a capital loss of 20 clams was made (maybe JAM became a shell company with minimal assets after the big assets of the company being sold for not much). And then let’s say that later some shares in another company (let’s call it SLP) were sold to generate a gain of 50 clams. So I imagine that when working out the overall taxable capital gain for that year the investor would take the 20 clam loss and offset it against the 50 clam gain to result in a gain of 30 clams and then because the asset that generated the gain were held for long enough the taxable gain would be reduced by 50% to become 15 clams taxable gain.

But … you’re original comment suggests that the person should instead chop the 50 clam gain in half first to make 25 clams and then offset the 20 clams to result in the 20 clam capital loss in the JAM company mostly removing the 50% reduced gain from the sale of SLP …

But, I’m not convinced that would be what I’d do and thus I’m not prepared to accept at face value much of what you offer in this forum as opinion or view or “fact”.

The smell of desperation is growing here.