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Hi there. I will write this in english because my german is at a beginner level, I just started to learn it from scratch 6 months ago. I just found out that there is a tax exemption that applies in Germany that works like this: if you hold your crypto assets for at least 1 year, no matter how much profit you earn, you don't pay any taxes, you don't even have to file it on your tax return. I'd like to know how could an EU citizen(from Romania) take advantage of this opportunity, since back here I'd have to pay 20% income tax on my crypto holdings. I think I should acquire residency in Germany to have to file tax returns there, this way I should be able to avoid paying taxes in Romania.

1. Is my assumption correct? Do I have to have a residency in Germany to be able to pull this off? Or is there some other way around this?

2. Once I can pay taxes in Germany, how should I approach this? I already held the bitcoins in a wallet for more than one year, is it possible to sell them and take advantage of the tax exemption right away, or is it the case that I need to wait for an year?

3. What does it imply to get residency in Germany? I've read that you need to have a job or study in Germany to get residency, but these are not viable options for myself. What other ways are there to aqcuire it? I plan on visiting the country for a couple of months, then leaving to some other places.

Hey und herzlich willkommen im deutschen Bereich. Hoffe du kannst deutsch lesen/verstehen :)

Die richtige Stelle für die Fragen zu dem Thema ist eigentlich hier:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1976285.0

Bzw. sind die Themen dort schon besprochen worden.
Nach 1 Jahr ist man aus der Spekulationsfrist raus und es ist wie von dir beschrieben. Denke aber du musst schon zum Zeitpunkt des Kaufs den DE Hauptwohnsitz gehabt haben!? Also könnte ich mir vorstellen denn sonst wäre es schon relativ einfach für quasi jeden die Steuern in der eigentlichen Heimat zu sparen ;)

Danke für deine Antwort. Ich werde die Frage dort stellen.

I can see you are beginner, try tinder it helps with german a lot but  and thank you I have learnt about taxes

Habe ich irgendwas verpasst? Tinder hilft mittlerweile um deutsch zu lernen? Oder war hier deepl gemeint? ;D

Ich finde diesen Account komisch. Der hat ja schon hier https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=340137.msg56247140#msg56247140 geschrieben und ich würde mal sagen, dass es nicht schaden kann, den User etwas enger im Auge zu behalten.

I guess you don't pay till you have not got really lot of money, so I didn't pay