{"id":19358,"date":"2025-03-27T12:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T12:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=19358"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T12:17:07","slug":"germany-sold-its-bitcoin-in-2024-now-it-may-be-considering-to-hike-crypto-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=19358","title":{"rendered":"Germany Sold Its Bitcoin In 2024\u2014Now It May Be Considering To Hike Crypto Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Germany is considering a significant change to how it taxes cryptocurrencies like <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) and <strong>Ethereum <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>), potentially ending the long-standing rule that exempts digital assets from capital gains tax after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/best-crypto-tax-software\">one-year holding period.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.btc-echo.de\/news\/krypto-steuer-spd-will-bitcoin-einjahresfrist-abschaffen-204487\/\">proposal<\/a>, part of the final draft from the \u201cBudget, Taxes, Finance\u201d working group in the ongoing coalition negotiations, suggests taxing cryptocurrency profits as private capital income at a flat rate of 30%, similar to traditional stock investments.<\/p>\n<p>The change would mark a fundamental shift in Germany&#8217;s approach to digital asset taxation, bringing it in line with equity markets. <\/p>\n<p>Currently, German investors who hold cryptocurrencies for more than one year are not subject to tax on any gains\u2014a policy that has made the country a relatively favorable &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/03\/44511649\/germany-sold-its-bitcoin-in-2024-now-it-may-be-considering-to-hike-crypto-taxes\" alt=\"Germany\" sold its bitcoin in it may be considering to hike crypto taxes>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany is considering a significant change to how it taxes cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO: BTC), potentially ending the long-standing rule that exempts digital assets from capital gains tax after a one-year holding period. What Happened: The proposal, part of the final draft from the \u201cBudget, Taxes, Finance\u201d working group in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-19358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}