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Profits from trading/crypto/trading, how are they taxed?
Amazin
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My assumption is that profits from stocks/crypto/trading are free from CGT as long it's within the £20K per year limit in an ISA? If you max out the ISA allowance it will count as a personal income so it will be taxed normally? Please correct me if I'm wrong
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Stock gains and trading within an ISA wrapper are free from tax. I don't think it's possible to put crpyto inside an ISA wrapper, so that will attract full CGT.
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Can you put crypto in an ISA?
- No, you can’t hold crypto in an ISA
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Your wording is ambiguous. £20k is the amount of new cash you're allowed to add to an ISA account each year. Within an ISA account, all profits - dividends, capital gains, interest - are free from tax, whatever their size. If you have added the maximum 20k to your ISA accounts in a year (it can be split among many accounts now), then any more cash would have to be invested outside an ISA. Dividends and/or interest from that would be taxed each year, and capital gains would be assessed in the year you sold it (or part of it).Amazin said:My assumption is that profits from stocks/crypto/trading are free from CGT as long it's within the £20K per year limit in an ISA? If you max out the ISA allowance it will count as a personal income so it will be taxed normally? Please correct me if I'm wrong1 -
Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious here but there's no "£20k ISA allowance" which you can use to deduct from your overall capital gains / income.
There is of course a maximum amount you can invest in an ISA each year and all capital gains / income within that account are free from further taxes.
It's just the OP read to me as though they were perhaps thinking that, if they made £25k from trading stocks in a GIA and/or on Crypto, they could then deduct £20k and have only £5k liable for CGT / income tax so I thought it was worthwhile clarifying1
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