QSBS State Tax Treatment

California Qualified Small Business Stock and Investor Tax Incentives

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California no longer offers a QSBS capital gains tax exclusion. The state of California repealed California Revenue & Tax Code Section 18152.5(n) in 2013.

In California capital gains are taxed at the nation’s highest state level tax rate of 13.3%.

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