When trading cryptocurrency, there are a variety of transactions that take place. Each transaction has a specific action, and in turn, is classified a certain way. Some examples of the transactions that you may be enacting with crypto are: purchases, trades, sales, etc.
Some of these transactions will be taxable events, and others will not. Taxable events are when a gain or a loss is recognized and they must be reported to the IRS. In order to accurately report gains or losses, your transaction history needs to include all of the transactions involving your crypto!
Included in this article you will find:
Which transactions does TaxBit need?
Taxable Events
Sale
"Sales" occur whenever you sell a cryptocurrency for a fiat currency (USD, EUR, CAD, AUD, Etc.) this is considered a taxable event.
Example: Selling .0001 BTC for $1.00 USD
Trade
"Trades" occur whenever you trade one cryptocurrency for another, this is considered a taxable event.
Example: Sending .00881040 BTC and receiving 116.7404 TOMO
Expense
Expenses occur whenever you purchase something with crypto, this is considered a taxable event. The USD value of the expense is calculated based on the value of the crypto at the time of the transaction.
Example: Buying a car by sending a person 1 BTC
Non-Taxable Events
Buy
Buys occur whenever you buy cryptocurrency with fiat currency (USD, EUR, CAD, AUD, Etc.), the transaction is not considered a taxable event. However, these transactions are still critical to include in your TaxBit account. Your buy transactions will establish cost basis, for calculating the gain or loss when the asset is offloaded in the future.
Example: Using $1,009.72 USD to purchase .1165 BTC
Income
Income is recorded whenever you receive an asset from mining, staking, airdrop, hardfork, interest earned, rewards, or as a gift. It is not considered a taxable event under the capital gains tax. However, these transactions are still important to include in your TaxBit account as they will help account for and establish cost basis, similar to buy transactions.
Additionally, the amount earned needs to be reported on your taxes as income.
Example: Receiving .58569173 MCO from staking as $2.58 USD worth of income.
Transfer In and Out
Transfers occur whenever you transfer cryptocurrency between wallets or exchanges.
Example: Sending 1 BTC from your exchange, to your hardware wallet
*An important thing to note: Some exchanges and wallets will not tell TaxBit that your income transactions are actually income! These transactions will sometimes appear as “Transfer In.” If you have any transactions that you know are actually “Income”, you can easily edit those transactions to reflect that.
Click on the transaction > Click the three dots in the top right corner > Select “Edit Transaction” > Change the “Type” to “Income” > Click “Save” at the bottom. (Screenshots provided below.)*
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