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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
by
HairyMaclairy
on 12/11/2020, 19:31:49 UTC
Let’s pretend Biden doubles CGT.  Which isn’t going to happen

You will still be better off selling next year.  

Also, Biden isn’t going to do shit on taxes.  He’s got bigger fights on his hands like fixing Covid.  

exactly...it has to be 85% cap gains on 100K..20% cap gains on 16K (if your cost is close to zero) is 3.8K, 12.2k profit.
If btc is 100K, tax has to be 88% to get the same profit. Zero chance for such tax and any tax higher than maybe 30% or so.
30% is possible...I paid 39.7% cap gains in 2000. That was a howler (forgot about short term vs long term when trading  Cheesy)

Not to put too fine a point on it but it’s not cap gains short term, it’s income.