If your taxable gain is $120,000, for example, and you're in the 25 percent tax bracket, you'd pay $30,000 if you sell after six months, but only 15 percent -- $18,000 -- if you hold on to the property for longer than a year.ake the purchase price of your property and add the cost of any improvements, Realty Times advises. If you bought a rental home for $300,000, for instance, that would be the basis for calculating your gains.
Bar Code-Commercial Use. In June of 1974, the first U.P.C. scanner was installed at a Marsh's supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The first product to have a bar code included was a packet of Wrigley's Gum.
Barclays, a London bank, loved the idea, and Shepherd-Barronâs first ATM was installed in a branch on Enfield High Street not long afterward. Unlike modern ATMs, Shepherd-Barronâs did not use plastic cards.he first automated banking machine in the U.S. was devised by a Dallas engineer and former professional baseball player named Donald Wetzel. Wetzelâs machine used plastic cards like the ones we use today.