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.
My guess would be that you can either use wallet separation or not, but you will have to stick to it. Switching every year would probably not be possible. This, you could ask if you are fine with sticking to a one pot.