Lead · Tax by Jurisdiction
The U.S. turns long-term holding into a lower rate. Germany turns it into outright exemption. The same intuition, applied to the wrong place, misreads your whole strategy.
Samuel Lee
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July 23, 2026
If you have reporting obligations in both the U.S. and an EU jurisdiction — whether due to tax residency status or holding assets that span both regions — it's easy to assume "they're both developed economies, the rules are probably roughly similar." In reality, the two sides differ quite significantly in their underlying design philosophy on several key points, and directly applying one...