What’s on the Capital Gains poster
A 6-row table: Concept · Means.
General principles. Rules and rates differ substantially by country.
- Capital gain — Sale price − purchase price − costs
- Realised — Only taxed when you actually sell
- Annual exemption — A tax-free allowance in many countries
- Main home — Often exempt or relieved
- Losses — Usually offset against gains
- Holding period — Some countries tax long-held assets less
General education, not tax advice. An unrealised gain is normally untaxed — the tax event is the sale.
Questions about the Capital Gains poster
- What’s on the Capital Gains (Tax) poster?
- A 6-row table: Concept · Means. General principles. Rules and rates differ substantially by country. Capital gain — Sale price − purchase price − costs; Realised — Only taxed when you actually sell; Annual exemption — A tax-free allowance in many countries; Main home — Often exempt or relieved; Losses — Usually offset against gains; Holding period — Some countries tax long-held assets less. General education, not tax advice. An unrealised gain is normally untaxed — the tax event is the sale.
- Who is the Capital Gains (Tax) poster for?
- Capital Gains (Tax) belongs to the Money section rather than to a school year, because money is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning tax can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Capital Gains (Tax) poster?
- The gain is the sale price minus what you paid, not the sale price itself. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Capital Gains (Tax) belongs on the wall where that money work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Capital Gains (Tax)?
- Working Across Borders, How Income Tax Works and Reading a Payslip sit alongside Capital Gains (Tax) in the Money section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Working Across BordersHow Income Tax WorksReading a Payslip
- Is the Capital Gains (Tax) poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Capital Gains (Tax) downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Money section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Capital Gains (Tax) poster print at?
- Capital Gains (Tax) is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Capital Gains (Tax) loses nothing.Printing guide
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