Key takeaways
- Berkshire's capital gains on investments it sells work like the typical investor's capital gains taxes do.
- As of the middle of this year, Berkshire Hathaway was sitting on $323.8 billion worth of individual stocks, including Coca-Cola, Apple, and American Express.
- For perspective on that figure, Berkshire's total market cap at the time was $1.1 trillion.
Like any other institution or individual investor, Berkshire Hathaway must pay taxes on realized gains from sales of its stock holdings. While current unrealized gains are sizeable, Berkshire Hathaway usually scales out of large positions at a fairly slow pace, minimizing the tax impact in any given quarter or year.
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