later is always better than paying them sooner. And secondly, depending on how soon you move, you can reduce your tax on that original investment by 15%. So that's the first benefit. When you say you can reduce your taxes on that original investment, what do you mean? Do you mean that you can pay 15% fewer taxes on the investment that you just invested in upon the time that you sell it? Let's say you bought something for $100, and you sell it for $200. You have a $100 capital gain. You would owe, roughly speaking, $28 in capital gains taxes on that. If you're putting it into an opportunity fund, you don't have to pay that $28 tax on day one. You can put it off until 2026. And secondly, you won't owe $28. You only owe $20. So you put that $100 gain into a building or a business in an opportunity zone. And if you hold onto it for 10 years, and it appreciates in value, you can sell it, and you don't have to pay any capital gains on that profit. So the first stage is you get a delay and a (24/40)
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