If I buy an e-mini futures contract and hold it for several years, rolling it out (i.e. buying and selling the expiring and next contract month in the same transaction) every month before eventually closing it, when do the capital gains become assessable for capital gains tax gains/losses in the UK ? Is it at the end of each tax year on any sales/purchases made exclusively in that tax year. Or is it at the end of the tax year when the trade is finally closed out, based on the final sale price minus the original purchase price several years earlier ? The eventual gain/loss then would be based on a summation of the individual gains/ losses made after each roll.
Tax treatment on Futures contracts.
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NorgateData
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Every roll is an event since each instrument is different.
CannonTrading_Ilan
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U.S. clearing houses don’t transmit trading data to off shore taxing authorities. A W-8 form is signed when you establish the account in the US. The W-8 form is an attestation from the client that you will honorably report your gains and losses to your local taxing authority. A U.S. citizen will be taxed on the aggregate gain or loss as it effects the total adjusted gross income for the year, no cost basis calculations are required as in Equities and ETF’s to calculate. We are not a registered accountancy. The question may be better served through your local professional accountancy agencies or taxing authorities.
Brokers send account balances and sales to the OECD. Tax authorities then access this data. There is a faq on the IB website giving more information.
Rats. I was about to say, after reading what Cannon said, that anyone making a killing trading futures at CME should move to the UK! Alas.
I cannot find the document on the IB website. Maybe it is only securities brokers that send the data to the OECD though IB is securities and commodities.