Hello, quick question: is depot/wallet separation (depottrennung) mandatory in Germany? I used to assume I can do one-pot FIFO (which is also the default method in all the tracking software I tried). Now when I calculate with wallet separation, I'm due taxes for previous years.
Can someone please share some thoughts on it? Thanks!
I was very sure that it is not mandatory and that you can even design the "depots" as you please, eg. the exchange Kraken+Bitfinex is first depot and FTX is another one and two different hardwarewallets are a third one. But this is just my personal opinion/what I do, as far as I know there is no official statement regarding this yet and every tax office is handling it differently.
Thank you very much, much appreciated.
I understand it’s not a tax advice, I’m just in a very interesting position that if this is correct, I don’t even need to file any gains in the tax statement. So I’m wondering if it is obligatory to ask them explicitely, it’s very tempting to just assume the one-pot FIFO.