Originally Posted by marti

I don't think I agree. Let me give you an example. Let's take one stock that had a gain of 300 Euros. That was over 3000 in Dollars. We reinvested the 300 Euros in Germany right away. We never realized the rest ($ 2700), but we had to pay taxes for it.
Now I see it was stupid to sell and reinvest, but somehow the way we were taxed does not seem to be fair. Well, now I know better.