News, regulatory updates and crypto-tax guidance for individuals, covering reporting, compliance and accounting developments.
What Form 1099-DA reports, when brokers started sending it, why the proceeds figure is not your gain, and how to reconcile it against your own records before a mismatch becomes a notice.
The legal levers that actually change a US crypto tax bill, ranked by how much they move the number, and the ones that do nothing but feel productive.
Mining is taxed twice and classified once. How the hobby and business distinction changes deductions and self employment exposure, and why the receipt value is the number everything else hangs on.
The US crypto filing timeline, why an extension to file is not an extension to pay, and the reconciliation work that has to happen before the deadline is close.
Leverage changes the tax shape of a trade, not just its size. Borrowing, funding payments, liquidations and the regulated versus offshore venue split, and where the treatment is genuinely unsettled.
The IRS has issued a gift tax safe harbor so parents and relatives contributing to a child's new Trump account under Sec. 530A can skip the gift tax return entirely if they meet simple conditions.
LP entry and exit, reward tokens, impermanent loss and auto compounding vaults: which parts follow from settled rules and which are positions you are taking.
Plain-English breakdown of the IRS safe harbor for Section 530A Trump accounts and the AICPA's caution around gift tax, Kiddie Tax, and Roth conversion risks
Giving crypto to a person and giving it to a charity are different transactions with different outcomes. What the giver reports, what the recipient inherits, and where the substantiation rules bite.
Borrowing against crypto is generally not a disposal, but three things around it are: liquidation, rehypothecated collateral, and repaying a loan with appreciated coins.
The information asymmetry that protected non filers is gone. What the IRS now receives, what the exposure looks like, and the difference between fixing it before and after contact.
Theft, hacks, lost keys, exchange collapses and worthless tokens are four different tax questions with four different answers, and the popular one is the least available.
A spot crypto ETF and the coins it holds are taxed through different machinery. In-fund sales you did not authorise, the reporting difference, and what changes inside a retirement account.
FBAR filing obligations now apply to cryptocurrency held on foreign exchanges; individuals need to understand reporting thresholds and use crypto tax software to aggregate data.
A plain-English breakdown of how the IRS taxes DeFi activity, covering staking rewards, trading gains, airdrops, and NFTs so US-based individual crypto users know exactly what they owe and how to stay compliant.
A practical, jargon-light breakdown of how the IRS treats staking rewards, DeFi income, NFT gains, and airdrops so individual US filers know exactly what to report and when.
A practical, jargon-free guide for US individual crypto holders explaining how capital gains tax works, what rates apply, and how a crypto tax calculator simplifies the filing process.
A practical breakdown of how the IRS treats NFTs, from minting and trading to DeFi and staking income, written for individual US filers who want clarity before the next tax deadline.
A practical breakdown of US crypto tax rates, cost basis methods, and loss harvesting strategies written for individual filers who want to understand their obligations before the deadline hits.
A practical US-focused explainer helping individual crypto holders understand exactly when airdrop, mining, staking, and DeFi income becomes taxable and how to avoid costly reporting mistakes.
A practical explainer for individual crypto traders on how wash sale rules do and do not apply to cryptocurrency across key jurisdictions, and what that means for tax loss harvesting strategies.
