How Uncle Sam Hurts Your Investment Returns

Investing is a fascinating topic, ripe with disagreement about the best way to make money in the stock market. Growth versus dividend stocks is a timeless debate, and niche crowds support every trading and investing strategy under the sun.

But for U.S. investors and those in most countries, taxes are a silent assassin of investment returns, often slipping unnoticed, sapping your returns with a tax bill every spring.

Taxes are a part of life, so while it's hard to avoid tax obligations altogether, you can craft your investment strategy to minimize the impact they have on you. Here's how to do that.

Source Fool.com