12 Smart Year-End Tax Moves to Make Now

2014 has been a prosperous year for taxpayers who own stock and mutual funds outside of their retirement accounts.

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2014 has been a prosperous year for taxpayers who own stock and mutual funds outside of their retirement accounts. But come April 2015, you’ll probably have to share some of your bull-market bounty with the IRS.

Smart tax planning now can help you reduce the taxes you’ll owe on your investment gains, and other types of income, too.

Sandra Block
Senior Editor, Kiplinger's Personal Finance

Block joined Kiplinger in June 2012 from USA Today, where she was a reporter and personal finance columnist for more than 15 years. Prior to that, she worked for the Akron Beacon-Journal and Dow Jones Newswires. In 1993, she was a Knight-Bagehot fellow in economics and business journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She has a BA in communications from Bethany College in Bethany, W.Va.