Recent rumors swirling on X wrongly accused presidential candidate Kamala Harris of endorsing President Biden’s 2025 proposal for a 25% tax that includes unrealized capital gains. What’s the truth behind the headlines and what caused the confusion?
Earlier this week, thousands of crypto investors found themselves caught up in a whirlwind of misinformation, with many prominent accounts reporting that U.S. presidential candidate Kamala Harris had endorsed a new tax on unrealized gains, originally proposed by President Joe Biden for 2025.
Social media, especially X, buzzed with outrage as people retweeted and reacted to evidently misinterpreted headlines, convinced that Harris wanted to tax unrealized capital gains at 25% next year.
The mass disapproval expressed on X seemed to imply that members of the crypto community thought that this proposed tax would apply to all U.S. investors, regardless of their net worth.
Unrealized gains refer to the amount an asset has gained in value (let’s say in USD) before you sell the asset and take the profit. So if you bought Bitcoin at $50,000 and now you’re seeing your BTC has grown more than 22% at today’s prices, you don’t actually realize those gains until you sell your BTC. Of course for many “diamond hands,” unrealized gains are much higher — and the prospect of having them taxed had many outraged.
The outcry was evidently fueled by a misunderstanding after Harris’ campaign team last week released her economic plan, as well as stated on Monday that, if elected, she would raise the corporate tax rate — a proposal previously put forward by the Biden administration.
Many were quick to assume that Harris’ team had
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