Gold Silver Ledger has stackers all over the world — but the Annual Report, as it exists today, is built around US tax rules.
This article is the honest version of what that means: what works for non-US users right now, what's on the roadmap, and how the data inside the app stays useful regardless of where you file.
Tier access
Annual Report features are Premium-only wherever you live. The country-scope question covered here is separate from tier gating.
What "US-only" means right now
The Annual Report's structure and language are anchored to US capital-gains treatment for collectibles. In practical terms:
The short-term / long-term split uses the US 1-year rule: Under 365 days held is short-term; 365 or more is long-term. That threshold isn't universal — most countries that tax capital gains don't use it, or use a different one.
The collectibles framing is a US tax concept: The 28% rate referenced in the Annual Report collection is a US federal cap on long-term gains on physical bullion. See A note on the collectibles tax rate (28%).
The disclaimer references US tax treatment: Consult a qualified tax professional regarding the treatment of precious metals disposals before filing, written assuming a US filer, though the principle applies anywhere.
The export format is shaped by US tax-form expectations: The per-item rows, the term split, and the totals are arranged to map cleanly onto what a US filer (or their accountant) would put on Schedule D and Form 8949.
For users outside the US, the mechanics of the report — what each column shows, how cost basis is computed, what the headline cards add up to — still work the same way. It's the tax interpretation layered on top that's US-specific.
Using the data outside the US today
The underlying data inside the Annual Report is country-agnostic, which means non-US users can absolutely still get value from generating one.
The per-item record — buy date, sell date, days held, proceeds, cost basis, gain or loss — is a clean, defensible record of what you bought and sold, in your selected display currency, and that record translates to any tax framework.
A few practical notes for non-US users:
Export and hand off: The CSV export, in particular, is well-suited to handing to a local accountant who can apply your country's rules to the per-item rows. See Exporting your Annual Report as CSV.
Treat the Term column as a hint, not as an authority: A 14-month holding period might be "long-term" in the US and meaningless in a country with no holding-period distinction at all. Your accountant decides what (if anything) the holding period means under your local rules.
Ignore the 28% collectibles framing if it isn't relevant: It's a US concept and doesn't have a direct counterpart in most other jurisdictions.
In short: the what you bought and sold part of the report is useful everywhere; the how it gets taxed part needs a local advisor.
What's coming: UK and Canada
The first two non-US jurisdictions on the roadmap are the United Kingdom and Canada. Both have meaningful stacker communities and well-defined capital-gains frameworks that the report can be shaped around:
United Kingdom: HMRC rules around capital gains tax, including the annual exempt amount and the different rates that apply at different income levels. Specific carve-outs for legal-tender UK coins (Sovereigns, Britannias, and others) are a recurring source of confusion that a UK-tailored report would clarify directly.
Canada: CRA rules around the capital-gains inclusion rate, applied to gains and losses on physical bullion as a non-personal-use property in most cases.
Each report will follow the same shape as the US version — pick a year, autofill from your recorded transactions, export to PDF or CSV — but with the term split, the rate references, and the disclaimer language adjusted to the local framework.
We don't have firm launch dates to share yet. The work is on the roadmap; UK and Canada are the next two stops after that.
What's coming: a deeper US report
The US report itself isn't finished growing either. Areas we're looking at expanding into include:
Form-ready output: Pre-filled or directly importable formats for Schedule D and Form 8949, so the CSV doesn't need re-shaping before going into tax software.
State-level breakdowns: Surfacing per-state subtotals where the user has filed multi-state returns or moved during the year.
Carryforward tracking: Bringing prior-year unused losses into the current-year picture, so the report becomes a multi-year planning tool rather than a single-year snapshot.
Richer disclaimers in edge cases: Inherited items, items held in trusts, items held in self-directed IRAs — each has different basis and holding-period rules, and the report can be more explicit about flagging them.
Beyond the UK and Canada
After the UK and Canada, the longer-term plan is to keep expanding into other jurisdictions where physical bullion is a meaningful part of the personal-finance picture — Australia, EU member states with active precious-metals markets, Switzerland, New Zealand, and others on a similar pattern.
Each requires understanding the local capital-gains framework and any precious-metals-specific exemptions or rates.
The order we get there will depend partly on user demand. If you're outside the US, UK, and Canada and would like to see your jurisdiction supported, contact support and let us know — the more data we have on where the demand actually sits, the better the prioritization gets.
Where to go next
Generating your Annual Report: Walkthrough of the page itself, useful regardless of country.
Exporting your Annual Report as CSV: The export most likely to be useful for non-US accountants today.
How the Annual Report autofills your data: Where each value in the report comes from, in country-neutral terms.
How cost basis is determined: The mechanism behind the Cost Basis column, applicable anywhere.