Holding-period checker

Enter when you acquired and sold (or leave the sale date as today) and pick a country, and this tool counts the days you held and tells you whether the disposal is short- or long-term under that jurisdiction's rules.

Classification only, applies 2025/26 rules, not tax advice.

Why the holding period matters

In many countries the length of time you hold a coin changes how the gain is taxed, and in some it decides whether the gain is taxed at all. Crossing a threshold, often one year, can move a disposal from a higher short-term rate to a lower long-term one, or into exemption. This tool tells you which side of the line a specific trade falls on.

How countries treat the holding period

A common one-year rule

Several countries use a one-year line: hold longer and the gain is taxed more lightly, or in some cases not at all. The tool applies that threshold where it exists and tells you whether your trade clears it.

Other thresholds

Not everyone uses a year. Some jurisdictions set a different period, and the benefit of crossing it, a lower rate or an exemption, varies. The tool uses each country's own threshold rather than a single global rule.

No distinction at all

Some countries tax all gains the same way regardless of how long you held. Where that is the case the tool says so, rather than inventing a threshold that does not apply.

From a date to a filed figure

Getting the holding period right is one input among several. Once you know it, the capital gains by country tool estimates the tax itself, and the full report reconciles it against your cost basis method and the rest of your activity.