They've been promised the lollipop but now they'll just get the stick. This year, that'll be an issue. The number of [AMT payers] is going to grow very rapidly.

On the Good Ship Lollipop.

We've thrown a lot of things against the wall and really haven't got them to stick. We've got a number of associate sponsors that want to participate for sure ... we just haven't totally put the funding package together.

The AMT is an entirely different way to calculate your taxes, and it's not really an alternative, as the name suggests. You have no choice. And it's affecting more and more people all the time.

You're going to need all that information to determine cost to calculate your gain or loss at a later date.

Once you've done the sale, the only way to fix that is with a time machine. But you can take steps to minimize the (tax) impact.