The text should be divided into sentences and corrected as follows: - There's a couple of losses that relate to individuals. The first one says loss on sale of a personal asset. This is the one I gave you an example of earlier. What does it say? It says, for example, that if I bought a car and used it, and later sold it at a garage sale for a hundred bucks, even though I paid a thousand bucks for it, I would have a loss of nine hundred. However, I cannot deduct this loss because it is called a consumption loss or personal consumption loss, which is not deductible. - Let's say instead I bought a rare 1947 Frigidaire refrigerator for a thousand bucks, and now it's worth $11,000. I would have a gain of $10,000. In this case, the government would tax me on this gain, as it is considered a capital gain. However, if I lived in the house for at least two of the last five years, the gain on the sale of my personal residence would be tax-free. The amount of gain that is tax-free depends on how much I made, with a limit of $250,000 for single individuals and $500,000 for married individuals filing jointly. Therefore, if I lived in the house for two or more years, I can sell it and the gain would be tax-free. I can then buy another house, live in it for two or five years, and again sell it tax-free. This is what it says in regards to gain on personal residence. - The basis of stock received is determined based on whether it is considered a dividend or if it is non-taxable. If it is included as income, the basis would be its fair market value. If it is non-taxable,...