Germany's Crypto Holding Period: Petition 201716 Closes on September 15, and What Happens Next

The signature period for German parliamentary petition 201716 closes on September 15, 2026. What ends on that day is the option to sign the petition online. Nothing more. It is not a tax deadline, not a selling date and not a cut-off by which you would have to change anything about your holdings in Bitcoin or other crypto assets. Anyone who has read the headlines about the end of the holding period over the past few weeks can easily mix up two completely different dates. This article separates them. The petition carrying ID number 201716 is titled “Preservation of the tax holding period for private disposals of crypto assets” and dates from May 30, 2026. The submission asks that the one-year holding period under Section 23 of the German Income Tax Act (EStG) remain in place and that crypto assets continue to be classified as “other assets”. When the official petition page was retrieved on September 7, 2026, the counter stood at 43,361 online signatures, the status at “in signature collection”, the field “quorum reached” at “yes” and the remaining time at eight days. The petition’s discussion forum held 107 threads at that point. What Really Ends on September 15, 2026 for Petition 2...