Post #15251 by rayvt on the Berkshire Hathaway board

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will invest in other S&P 500 ETFs, such as Vanguard’s VOO, but will exit positions just before ex-dividend dates. It will then rotate from one such index fund into another that isn’t about to pay a distribution.

VOO ex-dividend September 29, 2025
SPY ex-dividend September 19, 2025

So they duck the dividends, and don't have wash sales, but every time they rotate they get hit with Short Term capgains tax.

This sounds dumb. What am I not seeing?

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