Taxable Wealth
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Friday, August 7, 2026
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America turns 250 · 1776 to 2026 🇺🇸
Fifty states, fifty tax personalities
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Jumbo wealth practice urges advisers to lead with investment, not tax, in internal memo
Treasury wants to know which ETFs have been swimming naked
Full Transcript (Wall St. Tax Seminar): Treasury shares "concerns" while tax attorneys suggest "facts and circumstances"
Wealth industry scrambles to parse Treasury comments no one bothered recording
Treasury is "concerned" about "too good to be true" pitches
Tax-aware long/short: How we got to this moment
Float Quest
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The Float Map
Each float by its most-recent filing date · bubble area = valuation, or offering size for SPACs, funds & not-yet-priced deals · solid = priced
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Live from float.quest · source: SEC EDGAR. A Tax Alpha Insider project. Estimates, not announcements.
Live · 351.tax
The Section 351 ETF boom
…Funds live
…Current AUM
…Deferred gains
…In the pipeline
Funds launched by year, plus the pipeline
Live from 351.tax. The dashed segment on 2026 is the pipeline: funds filed but not yet launched. Explore every fund ↗
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Basis Manhattan: Fall 2026
Long/short: Schwab issuing "margin calls" in niche cash withdraw scenario
Covered call tax treatment by structure (calculator)
Early signs seeding ETFs in-kind is going mainstream
Why trader funds use swaps
Tax-aware long/short market map (summer 2026)
USA out of World Cup, but IPOs more transparent than ever
Swap taxation: what is constructive ownership?
Paying taxes on fireworks
A little tax strategy in your fund's swap positions
Swaps are in your funds. How are they taxed?
A wash sale is a wash sale no matter the wrapper
Managed futures "crisis alpha" is compelling, but...
What do 100 years of trend data reveal about managed futures?
Après Tax is personalized, after-tax performance, and it's coming soon
Why I left Substack
Long/short: Schwab adds "heightened maintenance standards"
Managed futures are weirdly uncorrelated
Long/short: what can the securities lending market tell us about short risk?
Is it okay to space out on SpaceX?
Tax-loss harvesting in 50 states
When a stock donation might be taxed like a sale
When an acquisition turns a stock into cash before the deal actually closes
Some source articles from Basis Northwest 2026
How options on SPY and SPX are taxed
SALT in the Washington State Wound
Basis Northwest 2026: self-selected
Basis Northwest 2026: Day 1 Notes
Long/short: alpha acts like a cash infusion
Variable Prepaid Forward vs. Collar/Margin Loan



