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Berkshire's $4.7B Duracell Buy Another Smart Deal For Warren Buffett
Investing 11/13/2014 @ 9:47AM via Forbes
According to Berkshire’s most recent annual letter, Berkshire acquired its current 1.9% stake in P&G at a price of $336 million. As of November, Berkshire’s 52.5 million share stake is worth around $4.7 billion, meaning Buffett’s investing portfolio is sitting on billions in capital gains, which are taxed at a 38% rate when accounting for federal and state taxes.
in 2007, Time Warner traded cash plus the Atlanta Braves baseball team to the famously taxophobic Liberty Media for Time Warner stock that Liberty owned. The deal was tax-free for both firms.