Display loss carryforward used annual
Capital-loss carryforward applied this year against gains and against ordinary income, combined.
Field: Loss carryforward used Unit: US dollars Basis: nominal dollars Computed by: UI transformation Status: Complete chain
Appears in: csv (lossCarryforwardUsed)
Calculation records
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Capital-loss carryforward used in the year Composition record, justified by derivation
Purpose: How much of the capital-loss carryforward the year used, as the ledger download reports it.
Statement: projection/yearFigures.ts#capitalLossCarryforwardUsed publishes capitalLossUsedAgainstGains + capitalLossUsedAgainstOrdinary for the year, both from one call of tax/federalTax.ts#applyCapitalLossCarryforward in the ledger (IRC 1211(b), 1212(b)). Units: nominal USD. Rounding: none; the ledger download rounds to whole dollars.
Formula:
used = usedAgainstGains + usedAgainstOrdinary; usedAgainstGains = min(P, G+); usedAgainstOrdinary = min(P - usedAgainstGains + G-, L)-
P: Opening carryforward pool (unit: usd) (domain: nonnegative) -
G+ / G-: The year's own realized gain / loss (unit: usd) (domain: nonnegative) -
L: Annual loss offset limit (unit: usd) (domain: 3,000)
Timing: annual
Rounding: none
Limits:
- When the year also realizes a net loss of its own, the figure exceeds the fall in the carried balance by that loss, which joined the pool before the $3,000 offset
- The single-pool, $3,000-for-every-filing-status and 1212(b)(2) limits of the carryforward itself are carried by the carryforward records
Provenance: derived by
claude, implemented byclaude-subagent.Independent review:
codexGates (6 of 6 pass): fixture registers a test: pass; pins resolve: pass; families exist: pass; worksheet exists: pass; mutation receipt exists: pass; provenance independent: pass
Worksheet: display-loss-carryforward-used-annual.md Mutation receipt: display-loss-carryforward-used-annual.mutation.md
Evidence tests: yearFigures.evidence.test.ts
Implemented in: yearFigures.ts; federalTax.ts
Is the number of: display-loss-carryforward-used-annual
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Records that feed this number
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Capital-loss carryforward netting Composition record, justified by derivation
Purpose: Spend a capital-loss pool against current gains first, then report the annual ordinary-offset slice on the capital-gain line.
Statement: tax/federalTax.ts#applyCapitalLossCarryforward applies an annual capital-loss pool first against current gains, then reports up to the annual ordinary-offset limit as a negative capital-gain-line amount without changing ordinary income, and carries the unused pool forward. The offset is not capped by ordinary income. Units: nominal USD. Rounding: none.
Formula:
usedAgainstGains = min(C, max(G, 0)); availableLoss = C - usedAgainstGains + max(-G, 0); usedAgainstOrdinary = min(availableLoss, L); netCapitalGain = max(G, 0) - usedAgainstGains - usedAgainstOrdinary; remaining = availableLoss - usedAgainstOrdinary-
C: Opening carryforward pool (unit: usd) (domain: nonnegative after the max(0, .) floor) -
G: Signed current capital result; a loss is negative (unit: usd) (domain: any finite number) -
L: Annual ordinary-offset limit, year2026.federalTax.capitalLossOrdinaryOffsetLimit (unit: usd/year) (domain: nonnegative after the max(0, .) floor)
Timing: one tax year; the projection threads the depleting pool year to year
Rounding: none
Limits:
- Ordinary income is never reduced directly: the deductible loss rides the capital-gain line, so subtracting the offset from ordinary income instead publishes a different AGI cascade
- One pool, no short-term / long-term split, and the section 1212 preservation of a deduction wasted in a year with no taxable income to absorb it is not modeled; both are stated planning simplifications on the function
Provenance: derived by
codex, implemented byclaude.Independent review:
cursorGates (6 of 6 pass): fixture registers a test: pass; pins resolve: pass; families exist: pass; worksheet exists: pass; mutation receipt exists: pass; provenance independent: pass
Worksheet: capital-loss-carryforward-netting.md Mutation receipt: capital-loss-carryforward-netting.mutation.md
Evidence tests: federalTax.evidence.test.ts
Implemented in: federalTax.ts
Is the number of: tax-loss-carryforward-remaining-annual, tax-loss-carryforward-used-against-gains-annual, tax-loss-carryforward-used-against-ordinary-annual
Feeds: tax-total-annual, display-loss-carryforward-used-annual, display-tax-free-gains-room-annual
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Transformations
- Add capitalLossUsedAgainstGains and capitalLossUsedAgainstOrdinary in projection/yearFigures.ts#capitalLossCarryforwardUsed.
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