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.
Woodlandâs invention was patented in 1952 as a âClassifying Apparatus and Method.â But Woodlandâs âapparatusâ would gather dust for 20 yearsâthe scanners and other equipment needed to put the system in place were too expensive. An early ancestor of the modern bar code was shaped like a bull's-eye.