3 New Methods for Tax Calculation
- OPTI - Optimized Calculation
This method will always provide the lowest profit.
1) All purchases that are long-term (by default > 1 year) are sold first starting with trades with the highest profit.
2) If there are no more long-term purchases available, short-term purchases (by default < 1 year) will be sold, starting with trades with the lowest profit.
I have a question about the new OPTI tax calculation method: Does it take into consideration how much of each purchase pool was sold in previous years' tax reports when deciding what to sell for this year? For example, let's say I calculate my 2016 and 2017 taxes with LIFO and then use OPTI for 2018. Doesn't it need to be aware of the calculation method used for previous years so it knows how much of each purchase pool is still available? In the United States we have to specify all of that when we report our taxes--I used the "tax declaration export" of CoinTracking. It would be a mistake to use the same purchase pool twice for different year tax reports, so want to ensure that doesn't happen. Hopefully my question is clear, thank you in advance.