QuantConnect / QuantConnect/Lean
Tax Model
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Description
Taxes are overwhelmingly my top expense.
There doesn't appear to be any builtin support for tax calculations.
Proposal: Add a Tax Model (SetTaxModel()) that would estimate taxes and adjust algo results based on factors such as:
- Geographic location {Puerto Rico, California, New York}
- Account type {taxable brokerage, roth IRA, HSA}
- Gross income outside the trading algorithm
- Marriage status, filing jointly or separately
- Estimated tax payment date and when+whether those taxes should be extracted from my balance
- Long vs short term capital gains taxes
- etc.
We could start with a SimpleLongVsShortTermTaxModel.
Tax information could appear as:
- Tax events in backtest and live reports
- Tax column in orders report
TODO: List potential APIs for collecting tax constants.
Update from Jared in Discord:
"We might be able to make something simple. We've intentionality ignored them till now."
This makes sense, taxes are remarkably complex and highly individual.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by narrowing the proposed SimpleLongVsShortTermTaxModel and deciding which tax inputs, extraction timing, reports, and order fields are in scope. Done would require an agreed API and defined behavior for the selected scope.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp
- Domain
- fintech-quant
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100