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Germany: Taxation of Airdrops #104

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Griffsano opened this issue Jan 23, 2022 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #115
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Germany: Taxation of Airdrops #104

Griffsano opened this issue Jan 23, 2022 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #115
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@Griffsano
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According to https://www.winheller.com/bankrecht-finanzrecht/bitcointrading/bitcoinundsteuer/besteuerung-airdrops.html and the publication by the German BMF, Airdrops may be considered as "sonstige Einkünfte" in the future.

However, before updating the code accordingly, I think this topic needs some more investigation.

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provinzio commented Jan 23, 2022

However, before updating the code accordingly, I think this topic needs some more investigation.

What makes you think that?

It might be difficult to differentiate between taxable airdrops ("irgendeine Leistung erbracht, bspw. personenbezogene Daten angegeben") and none taxable airdrops as descibe by Winheller. We might have to add an additional file, where the user can list all airdrops which shouldn't be count as taxrelevant.

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Exactly, the question is how to define if the user did something to get the airdrop. For example, some airdrops are distributed to investors achieving a certain trading volume within a given time frame. Would this also be a "Leistung"? The user probably would have traded anyways...

I like your approach with defining the tax-free airdrops in a file, but we have to define a format for this (similar to the deposits/withdrawals CSV-based matching idea #4). Platform, UTC time and transaction ID if applicable should be sufficient to uniquely identify the airdrop. To be on the safe side, I would also consider all airdrops as tax relevant per default.

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provinzio commented Apr 8, 2022

I reviewed the BMF file. tax-fee is kind of wrong. They differentiate between Einkünfte aus sonstigen Leistungen and Schenkung. I guess that no normal person gets over the Freibetrag for this, but we should identify it exactly like this in our tax report.

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