Mon May 06 2024, by Tyler Gardner
Tyler, it looks like you made $45,000 from selling stocks this year.
Tyler: Yep.
Okay, so you owe us nothing—15% of those capital gains.
Tyler: Oh, no, I don't. Because my Bitcoin went from $60,000 to $15,000. I just sold it to lock in the losses on paper that offset the gains from the other stocks.
But it says here you still own one Bitcoin.
Tyler: Yep. I sold it at 1 PM and bought it back at 1:05 PM.
You can't do that. You have to wait 30 days to rebuy it or it's considered a wash sale.
So, Bitcoin is still classified as property, not as a security. Therefore, the wash sale rule doesn't apply.
Tyler: So I owe you nothing.
That's right.
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