Short-Term Capital Gains Tax Calculator
Calculate tax on short-term capital gains (assets held one year or less), taxed as ordinary income.
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Short-term gains are taxed exactly like ordinary income — no special lower rate applies.
Worth Knowing
The one-year holding line is the single most consequential date in investing taxes. Sell an asset at a profit after holding it a year or less and the gain is short-term, taxed at your ordinary income rate — potentially up to 37%. Hold it just past a year and it becomes long-term, taxed at the far gentler 0/15/20% rates. That difference alone can make waiting a few extra days before selling genuinely worth thousands.
How to Use
- Enter Filing status into the first field of the Short-Term Capital Gains Tax Calculator.
- Fill in the rest: Other taxable income, Short-term capital gain.
- Your result appears instantly as you type — there's no submit button or page reload.
- Short-term gains are taxed exactly like ordinary income — no special lower rate applies.