Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - General "Stolen" tags - difficult to understand the design

The "stolen" tag is removed for stackable items if you have a non-stolen item of that kind in your inventory and the stacks get merged.

So if you want to have a "nice piece of armor" without risk (and without "paying" for it) you must actually buy it and then steal your gold back. Your stolen gold and non-stolen gold gets merged to one stack without "stolen" tag.