Coinbase is now your personalized guide to crypto taxes

By Lucy Aziz, Product Manager, Coinbase

Crypto taxes can be complicated. Last tax season, many customers told us they didn’t know if they owed taxes on their crypto activity, and those who did know found it manual and difficult to file.

This tax season, we’re introducing a tax center so customers can understand and file their crypto taxes with more ease and confidence. Customers will see all of their taxable activity in one place to determine if they owe taxes, and how much. If they’ve taken more advanced steps like sending or receiving crypto from Coinbase Pro or external wallets, they can receive free tax reports for up to 3,000 transactions from our crypto tax partner CoinTracker. The most complicated time of the year just became more clear.

See a simple summary of taxable amounts

U.S. taxpayers are required to report crypto sales, conversions, payments, and income to the IRS, and these transactions may be taxed as either capital gains/ losses or as regular income. Last year, customers had to research which transactions were considered taxable, and then manually track and sort them to calculate their gains/losses. It was tedious and time-consuming.

Now, we’re simplifying the process by showing each customer a personalized summary of their taxable activity on Coinbase, broken out over time by realized gains/losses and miscellaneous income. Customers can use these amounts to prepare and file their taxes either with their personal accountants or directly with tax prep software like TurboTax®, where all Coinbase customers get up to $20 off TurboTax products.