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This is just my opinion, and I'm no tax expert by any means, but until you are making a few $100Ks on Futures Trading, don't bother. It will only add complexity. You can still take advantage of the 1256 form.

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Does income from trading classify as foreign income? Or how about trading through an offshore company and paying yourself from it? I am curious because Uruguay does not tax foreign income unless its interest or dividends (according to URUGUAY: TAXES).

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Does income from trading classify as foreign income? Or how about trading through an offshore company and paying yourself from it? I am curious because Uruguay does not tax foreign income unless its interest or dividends (according to URUGUAY: TAXES).

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This is mark to market accounting tax question mostly.

I am a full time trader under my Sole Proprietorship. My accountant suggested I convert to Mark to Market accounting for 2014, which I did.

I am married and manage my two Short Term trading accounts, my one Long Term (1yr +) account and my wife's Long Term holding account.

Today my accountant tells me that all my accounts will be treated as Mark to Market. Even my wife ( we file jointly). Does this should right? My wife is not a trader. Is anyone else in this situaltion?

I thought the major advantage of mark to market accounting was that it allowed you to take unlimited losses?
If you don't have losses I wasn't aware that it changed anything?

Disclaimer. I'm not an accountant, I'm a trader.

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For anyone living in the UK, there can be considerable advantages, under some circumstances, to trading by spreadbetting, because all profits are tax-free. In the UK spreadbetting is classified for tax-law purposes as "betting" and betting taxes were abolished decades ago. Even UK residents whose primary or sole income comes from spreadbetting are not liable for either income tax or capital gains tax on their profits.

It's worthwhile, of course, to check carefully how well and by whom a spreadbetting company is regulated, what the spreads are like, and whether counterparty trading is involved (in which they effectively hold the other side of their own clients' positions as many "retail forex brokers" do - but often they don't: they simply lay off their own net liabilities in the underlying market and have absolutely no incentive at all for any individual clients to lose their spreadbets).

Quite a lot of the "information" available online about spreadbetting (especially in trading forums) is somewhat prejudiced and hugely out-of-date: for example, there's a pervasive myth about wide spreads, which often isn't the case at all; and there's a similar myth that they don't allow "scalping".

(I haven't read every single post in this huge thread: apologies if this has already been mentioned, somewhere above.)

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