RE:Capital gainsPretty easy to find the rules. You pay tax on 50% of you gain at your nominal tax rate. So if you make 1000$ capital gain and you are in a 40% tax bracket u will pay 40% on half of that gain or $200. Next step is to figure out what the government plans to do. I suspect as was said that they will increase it to paying tax on 75% of your gain. That would increase the tax above to 300$. Still you are only paying 30% tax in reality on that capital gain. Some stuff.