# Investing for a 2 year period worth it?
**URL:** https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/investing-for-a-2-year-period-worth-it/3164
**Category:** Investing / Others
**Created:** [February 1, 2020, 7:48am UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/investing-for-a-2-year-period-worth-it/3164 "2020-02-01T07:48:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@REandSTOCK](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/REandSTOCK)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 11:04am UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/investing-for-a-2-year-period-worth-it/3164/21 "2020-02-06T11:04:49Z")
You can sell stocks, ETFs, a Picasso tax-free as long as the authorites don’t qualify you as a professional trader/ art dealer / whatever
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### Author:  [@San\_Francisco](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/San_Francisco)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/investing-for-a-2-year-period-worth-it/3164/22 "2020-02-06T20:23:10Z")
> [@Mellow](#):
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> Even if i buy Irish ETF funds that of course are domiciled in Ireland, will it be tax free in Switzerland?
European countries (like most in the world) base personal taxation on _residency_, rather than location of assets or “origin” country of capital income.
As such, it doesn’t matter where a fund or stock is located for _Swiss_ tax purposes.
> [@Mellow](#):
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> Even if i buy Irish ETF funds that of course are domiciled in Ireland, will it be tax free in Switzerland?
- _Capital gains_ in these ETFs are tax-free for a Swiss personal investor - same as for funds domiciled in other countries.
- _Income_ in these ETFs (that is ETF receiving interest or dividends from stock it holds) are taxed according to Swiss tax law - generally irrespective of whether they are distributed to you or accumulated in the fund.
The advantages of (in particular) _Irish_ ETFs for personal investors, as compared to ETFs in other countries, are their tax status in Ireland (1. generally favourable double taxation agreements that Ireland has with other countries, meaning these funds have relatively low tax burden when _receiving_ dividends from these other countries, and 2. effectively a lack of withholding tax when the Irish funds _distributes_ to non-resident investors like you)
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### Author:  [@Mellow](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/Mellow)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/investing-for-a-2-year-period-worth-it/3164/23 "2020-02-07T13:19:25Z")
Thanks again. You explained it so well. Now i can begin with the fun stuff, checking which Irish based ETFs to invest in and how to diversify.
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