Tax and the Single Stock Future

"Nothing is certain but death and taxes." -- Benjamin Franklin

Death and taxes may be of equal certainty, but at least death is easy to understand. Single stock futures, or SSFs, like so many financial products before them, will trade in an environment sculpted by tax law. As with everything else associated with these seemingly simple contracts, the reconciliation of how we tax futures and how we tax equities has been anything but simple. But savvy traders and financial planners know this creates nothing but opportunity. ...