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Important post if you are in the UK 🇬🇧

Plz share with or tag other Brits.

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A Tax-Efficient Way to Spend Your #Bitcoin While Supporting the Network and Keeping Your Holdings Intact!

One way to spend Bitcoin, help decentralize the network, and move BTC off exchanges without triggering a taxable event is through a strategic spending and repurchase approach.

Here’s how it works ⬇️

Step 1: Spend #Bitcoin at a vendor who accepts it as payment.

This ensures you're using Bitcoin in the way it was designed—as a decentralized currency. You're also supporting businesses that accept Bitcoin directly. 💳⚡️

Step 2: Within 30 days of making the purchase, buy back the same amount of Bitcoin.

This is key to ensuring that you retain your original holdings without being exposed to market volatility. 🔄

The magic behind this strategy is the 30-day rule.

In the UK, this rule prevents you from claiming a tax loss on an asset if you buy it back within 30 days, but it also means you inherit the original cost basis if no profit is made.

By rebuying the Bitcoin within the 30-day window, you effectively reset your position at the original purchase price, meaning no capital gains or losses are realized.

This way, no taxable event occurs, and your Bitcoin stays in your hands! 💼🛡️

Not only does this method keep your tax position intact, but it also moves Bitcoin off exchanges, which enhances decentralization and strengthens the Bitcoin network.

You continue to hold Bitcoin with your initial cost basis, tax-free. 🏛️🔐

In summary:

Spend BTC at a vendor

Buy back the same amount within 30 days

Maintain your original cost basis, avoiding tax implications

Support the Bitcoin ecosystem by transacting on-chain 🌍⚡️

#Bitcoin #CryptoTax #BitcoinNetwork #SpendAndHODL #TaxPlanning

THIS THREAD IS FROM

THIS ACCOUNT;

Stolen from The Secret Investor - Tax accountant on twitter.

I put this into chat gpt. answer seems a bit more ambiguous to me. This is part of the answer. Seems a bit more ambiguous to me:

Clarification and Corrections:

1. Taxable Events in the UK (30-Day Rule):

* In the UK, any disposal of Bitcoin, including spending it, triggers a taxable event. This is where things get tricky.

* Spending Bitcoin to buy goods or services is considered a disposal by HMRC (UK tax authority), meaning it could create a capital gains tax (CGT) liability if the value of the Bitcoin has increased since you originally acquired it.

* When you rebuy the Bitcoin within 30 days, the UK’s Share Matching Rules apply, meaning the new Bitcoin you buy is matched to the Bitcoin you sold or spent, for tax purposes.

* If you sell and buy within the 30-day window, the cost basis of the Bitcoin you repurchase is matched to the sale price, so you still might incur a capital gains tax depending on the price movement.

For those of you that price things in #bitcoin are you talking savings, big purchases or everyday things, groceries etc?

#asknostr

Are #bitcoin fees now up only?

#asknostr

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