I was thinking about CGT and the following scenario occured to me. It all happens in the same year:
A person buys shares/ foreign currency. The price goes up a lot and they make £1 million. They then exchange a part of that holding for another share or currency. Thus they need to pay CGT. E.g. they made a gain of £100k after that sale. They owe £20k tax.
However then the price of the new asset falls a lot and then they sell this asset for another one (share or foreign currency again), and they now have a loss of £90k. This offsets the £20k tax they had to pay. They still have a loss of £70k I believe?
Now the price of the this third asset goes up and they want to cash it out or perhaps cash out a part of the original £1 million they earned. Can they offset what they gain with the £70k loss? E.g. they sell the asset for £50k GBP, do they not have to pay any CGT for that year?
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