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How can it not be possible? Surely if you have 1500 B shares, you can sell them and buy an A share?



Yes, but Berkshire’s stock transfer agent won’t handle the conversion from B to A. You sell them on the market and are taxed accordingly.

Their stock transfer agent will give you B shares in exchange for an A share, which is not a taxable event. It’s a mechanism to encourage arbitrageurs to keep the prices of the share classes in lockstep.

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/brkshareholderinfo/compab....


Wouldn't going from B to A count as a wash sale?


Yes, but that only stops you from claiming capital loss, you still pay taxes on gains




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