It's just YouTube, but today I ran across a video that mentioned a bitcoin HODL tax.
In order to stop bitcoin, authorities would have to shut down the internet which is impossible. So I predict that their next move is to launch enormous taxes to discourage people from owning bitcoin, and prevent mass adoption as competition for their corrupted CBDC's that still have to be launched. The purpose of their regulations is to take over the entire bitcoin market, of course. They will make you sell, either by launching huge taxes for ownership or by treating the owner of 1 BTC like a drug dealer (prison sentence).
So we need a gameplan against this.
Can we be exposed to taxation or legal penalties when the wallet is reported as stolen? I think not, but I want to be sure.
I don't think you can pay taxes on something you do not officially own. And neither can you pay taxes when you don't have money or own other assets.
I have purchased my first BTC on a regulated exchange with KYC. I don't prefer it because of privacy reasons, but I had no other choice at the time. From there it will go to my coldstorage device, which I consider reporting as stolen if a ownership tax is launched. However, authorities would know the BTC address (exchange will provide it) and every future transaction that came from it. So I could never move the funds after reporting it as stolen (I guess) as this demonstrates they were not stolen.
Can I transfer the BTC from my current address, to an address that no government can ever link to me?
It is pertinent to note that all these unscrupulous shenanigans by government and its arms are just a way of getting at Bitcoiners and they are only enjoying their limited time as Bitcoin gradually gains adoption. Uoon massive adoption, people will prefer to use Bitcoin thereby activating its peer-to-peer feature which entirely eliminates the government from interfering or taxing transactions that doesn't involve their traditional finance systems.