Shares, property and crypto: working out the gain and reporting it in time.
What triggers it, how the gain is calculated, and at what rate.
Capital Gains Tax is badly understood because it is occasional. Most people meet it a handful of times in a lifetime, usually when selling shares, a second property or crypto, and by then they have had no reason to learn it.
This module builds the calculation from scratch: what counts as a disposal, what comes off the gain, and how your income decides the rate.
Where the identification rules make things genuinely difficult.
Selling a house is one disposal with one cost. Selling shares or crypto bought in dozens of tranches at different prices is not, and you cannot simply nominate which ones you sold. The pooling and matching rules decide for you, and they are the part people get wrong most often.
The 60 day deadline, and making losses actually count.
Two things left: the deadline that catches people who have sold property before, and the losses that are only useful if you claim them. Both are administrative rather than conceptual, and both cost real money when missed.
10 questions covering the whole course. Score 80% or more and you get a certificate of completion. You can retake it as many times as you like.
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