Imagine you don't trust the stock market nor the banks so you keep the money in your house. Then you want to protect yourself from inflation and you buy gold.
Then one day you want to sell a considerable amounts of gold - say 2-10 kg. You can try to sell to friends of course but if you want to sell it with papers to a company then how much you have to pay in tax for that?
I had to chose a country (USA) to be more specific in the title but answers about other countries are very welcome
