Crypto Holding Period: Committee Sitting October 12

On Monday, October 12, 2026, the petitions committee of the German Bundestag will debate the tax holding period for crypto assets in public from 12 noon. The sitting is not a closed deliberation: anyone who wants to attend can register until Friday, October 9, at 12 noon, and anyone who misses that can follow the date via livestream. Nothing is decided on that Monday. What happens there is nonetheless the last dated point at which something can move in public before the cabinet takes up the matter on October 14.

This article sorts out three things: what exactly is on the agenda on October 12, what petition 201716 demands, and what the planned cutoff date of December 31, 2026 means for holdings that already sit in a portfolio or in a self-custodied wallet today.

The petitions committee debates the crypto holding period on October 12 from 12 to 2 pm

The German Bundestag has set the date and published it itself. The petitions committee will deliberate two petitions in succession in a public committee sitting. At 12 noon the item in question is the one the agenda words as “income tax – preservation of the tax holding period for private disposals of crypto assets”. At 1 pm a second, substantively unrelated item on animal testing follows. The slot runs from 12 to 2 pm, which leaves around an hour for the crypto item.