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Italy seeks to impose one time tax on privately held gold

derrybderryb Posts: 38,528 ✭✭✭✭✭

4,500–5,000 metric tons of privately held gold,

In the name of "transparency, legal gold circulation."

When gold and silver move together, it signals the coming end of fiat money.

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  • derrybderryb Posts: 38,528 ✭✭✭✭✭

    reuters is the hub of mainstream news

    When gold and silver move together, it signals the coming end of fiat money.

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 38,670 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 38,670 ✭✭✭✭✭

    looks like the real media reads reuters too

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 31,445 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 1, 2025 4:29AM

    Who's gonna own up to saying they have gold unless there's some restrictions to it? Just wondering is all
    (Yes, they'll give you a certificate) and a merry Christmas

  • DisneyFanDisneyFan Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This is serious stuff!

    "The proposal would allow individuals to pay a 12.5% tax to certify the market value of bullion, gold jewellery and collectible coins for which purchase records are missing, the same rate as on government bonds. The certification has to be done by June 2026.

    Under current rules, the lack of proof of purchase can lead to a 26% tax on the entire sale value, rather than just the actual capital gain. This has discouraged people from selling their inherited gold on the official market and pushed some transactions into informal or undeclared channels, limiting market liquidity and tax revenues, "

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 38,670 ✭✭✭✭✭

    just a note that in the us that gold investments sold without a documented purchase price are taxed with a $0 cost basis. this means the capital gains taxes are on the full sales price

    liquidity. funny.

  • taxmadtaxmad Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭✭

    @MsMorrisine said:
    just a note that in the us that gold investments sold without a documented purchase price are taxed with a $0 cost basis. this means the capital gains taxes are on the full sales price

    liquidity. funny.

    Same with anything sold - from a used pair of knickers to a kilo of gold

  • blitzdudeblitzdude Posts: 7,565 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I lost all me gold in a terrible yachting accident. RGDS!

    The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
    BOOMIN!™
    Wooooha! Did someone just say it's officially "TACO™" Tuesday????
    Retiring at 55, what day is today? :sunglasses:

  • DisneyFanDisneyFan Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MsMorrisine said:
    just a note that in the us that gold investments sold without a documented purchase price are taxed with a $0 cost basis. this means the capital gains taxes are on the full sales price

    I think you could make the argument that the cost basis is a least the face value of the coin.

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 38,670 ✭✭✭✭✭

    maybe it is undocumented because it is a gift with no cost basis

  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭✭

    And so it begins.

    Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
  • LukeMarshallLukeMarshall Posts: 2,183 ✭✭✭✭✭

    MAMA MIA !

    It's all about what the people want...

  • DisneyFanDisneyFan Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MsMorrisine said:
    maybe it is undocumented because it is a gift with no cost basis

    LOL. The gift would still carry the original cost basis - the face value of the coin. - .

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