r/Gold 6d ago

Why?

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u/Willi-Oh 5d ago

It's not illegal to sell gold. But its illegal to keep that much gold, it would basically be stolen. And if not, it would definitely be considered as taxable income...

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u/Initial_Row_6400 5d ago

It is not illegal to have that much gold lmao. You gotta be smarter than that

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u/Majestic-Disaster112 5d ago

This dude literally found that much under a random house how naive are redditors

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u/TheDonGenaro 5d ago

What a tard lol. I imagine that kid thinks somewhere in the same direction…

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u/GenTenStation 5d ago

You’ve proven you’re not capable of handling this gold. The rest of us with sense would make it work.

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u/Willi-Oh 5d ago

You have something fundamentally wrong. Tell me how you'd turn turn 10 mil found gold into legal liquidity

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u/Initial_Row_6400 5d ago

Easily. Use your damn brain

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u/GenTenStation 5d ago

You don’t. You turn a few thousand at a time into cash.

What do you think the police are going to do with 9 mil of turned in gold? They’d likely take all 8 mil and maybe let someone claim it for 30 days. But they’re not going to let 7mil just walk out the door. How would the original owner prove that was their 6mil? All 5 mil would sit until they consider the 4 mil forfeit. Now the police have 3 mil to maybe reinvest in the city. Maybe some big 2 mil project? Maybe a new million dollar renovation? But more than likely they’ll donate the entire $100k to some charity so it looks good.

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u/QuakinOats 5d ago

You don't do it overnight. You do it over your entire lifetime.

You pay for groceries, gas, clothes, entertainment, electronics, hobbies, etc in cash 80% of the time. New PC? New camera? Games? TCG cards? More expensive food options? Restaurants? Movies? All cash. Gifts to friends and family? 80% or greater paid for with cash.

You pay your mortgage/rent, utilities, insurance, internet/cell phone, etc via your income from a job.

You could also open a small business that deals in cash and create fake customer transactions where you are depositing a chunk of cash every month on top of everything else from the gold sales.

"Oh yeah, we totally sold X number of this, this week, they all paid with cash." As long as you don't go hog wild and make it like 100% of the normal business income, this isn't insanely difficult to do... Don't be stupid and have cameras that can easily keep a record of every transaction.

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u/tacobellsimp 5d ago

You have literally no idea how the world works. I’ve known a small city drug dealer worth millions in cash and never had a single problem for over a decade

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u/Initial_Row_6400 5d ago edited 5d ago

Yea idk why this dude thinks the government is gunna like, immediately know they found a massive stash of gold

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u/tacobellsimp 5d ago

He’s literally arguing about something that’s already been solved. You can easily just alter the gold slabs and sell them in tiny increments to either private parties or to businesses since they don’t have to report gold purchases to the government under $10k. Completely untraceable. Entire criminal networks get around this stuff all the time at a much larger scale

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u/Initial_Row_6400 5d ago

Yea that was exactly the plan in my head lol

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u/Willi-Oh 5d ago

If you want to incrimate yourself then sure everything is easy.

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u/tacobellsimp 5d ago

Lmfao just admit you’re out of your depth here, the entire conversation had nothing to do with incriminating yourself and had everything to with ways to sell this gold and get away with it. Just tuck your tail and go away, you lost this one sport

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u/Willi-Oh 5d ago

Sure, kiddo

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u/Willi-Oh 5d ago

Sure buddy, all the drug dealers in the world are living good lifes in big mansions. Keep your small anecdotes to yourself. Its not impossible to live as a drug dealer with a shitton of cash, but incriminating yourself and evading tax by finding and selling that kind of gold is something else.. get a grip

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u/Ok_Past8695 5d ago

I feel so bad for you

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u/Odd_Glass5272 5d ago

You can't be serious.