Comments on: Time To Invest In Milk? http://livingoffdividends.com/2007/11/20/time-to-invest-in-milk/ Join me on my journey to achieve financial independence through dividends, passive income and investments Sat, 15 May 2010 01:48:25 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Philip Brewer http://livingoffdividends.com/2007/11/20/time-to-invest-in-milk/comment-page-1/#comment-1000 Philip Brewer Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:49:19 +0000 http://www.livingoffdividends.com/2007/11/20/time-to-invest-in-milk/#comment-1000 Because of trading and holding costs, it's tough to turn investments in commodities into income that you can live on. To the extent that you can use the trends to reduce your future cost of living (by buying stuff you're going to use before the price goes up), you can get all the advantages of buying stuff and then selling it when the price goes up, with the added advantage that you don't need to pay taxes on the profits. I wrote about it here: http://www.wisebread.com/huge-tax-free-investment-returns Because of trading and holding costs, it’s tough to turn investments in commodities into income that you can live on. To the extent that you can use the trends to reduce your future cost of living (by buying stuff you’re going to use before the price goes up), you can get all the advantages of buying stuff and then selling it when the price goes up, with the added advantage that you don’t need to pay taxes on the profits.

I wrote about it here:

http://www.wisebread.com/huge-tax-free-investment-returns

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