Good (and correct imo) analysis here @CryptoTaxGuyETH
Some of the accountants responding to this post are right-ish...for the wrong reasons.
ETH deposited to Aave is NOT loan collateral. Loan issuers remain tax owners of their collateral. Aave depositors DON'T remain tax owners of their ETH, bc Aave onlends it.
Depositing ETH into Aave nevertheless should not be a tax event, for the same reason securities loans are not tax events: because depositors can reacquire ETH on demand by redeeming their aETH, aETH is not "materially different in kind or in extent" from ETH, which is the threshold for a tax event.
Btw, because borrow fees on Aave are not interest, they generally are miscellaneous itemized deductions to individuals, and therefore are nondeductible, same as securities borrow fees.
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