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elchic
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How is Capital Gains Distribution calculated and summed up? I have a value in Capital Gains Distribution but do not understand how it was totaled up. Can someone advise?

 
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PattiF
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How is Capital Gains Distribution calculated and summed up? I have a value in Capital Gains Distribution but do not understand how it was totaled up. Can someone advise?

Capital gain distributions are long-term capital gains generated by the fund from the internal sale of stocks it holds. By law, these gains must be passed out to the fundholders. capital gains distribution is a payment by a mutual fund or an exchange-traded fund (ETF) of a portion of the proceeds from the fund's sales of stocks and other assets. It is the investor's share of the proceeds from the fund's transactions. It is not a share of the fund's overall profit. 

 

 If a fund sells shares held short term at a gain they come out not as short term capital gains but as ordinary dividends. If a fund has net capital losses for the year the fundholder gets no tax benefit. Those losses are carried over until such time as the fund has capital gains in excess of those losses.

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Hal_Al
Level 15

How is Capital Gains Distribution calculated and summed up? I have a value in Capital Gains Distribution but do not understand how it was totaled up. Can someone advise?

TurboTax (TT), most likely, picked up that amount from box 2a of  form 1099-DIV.  It's fairly common.

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