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- Mid-year tax-loss harvesting setup: → Find positions currently at a loss → Wash sale rules don't currently apply to crypto → You can sell, realize the loss, and rebuy immediately → Losses offset gains, then up to $3k of ordinary income Start identifying candidates now, not
- Germany's crypto tax deadline is July 31. 🇩🇪 Get tax-ready with CoinTracker: ✓ Anlage SO support ✓ Germany's 1-year holding exemption ✓ Trade Republic, BISON & Bitget integrations ✓ Full German-language experience Track, calculate, and generate your crypto tax reports with
- We're halfway through 2026. 10-minute crypto tax checkup: All wallets connected? All exchanges synced? Anything flagged "needs review"? Unrealized gains/losses... where are you? Any harvestable losses? Do it now and thank yourself in April.
- If you paid IRS penalties from 2020 to 2023, you may be owed a refund. Two court rulings suggest penalties on tax obligations from Jan 20, 2020 through Jul 10, 2023 may have been improper. Crypto investors were hit hard: big 2021 gains, 2022 market chaos, and complex DeFi
- Airdrop tax 101: ✅ Income at FMV once you have "dominion and control" ✅ Your cost basis going forward = that FMV ✅ If worthless at receipt, value is $0 (full gain is realized at sale) ❌ Ignoring it because it was "free" is not a strategy The IRS sees what's onchain.
- Staking rewards, in plain English: → Rewards are income the moment you receive them (IRS Rev. Rul. 2023-14) → Income = FMV at time of receipt → When you later sell those rewards, you have a separate capital gain/loss → Two taxable events, not one This is why staking-heavy
- Quarterly tax heads-up. ↓ Q2 estimated taxes due Monday, June 15. If you had significant realized gains in Q1–Q2 (crypto or otherwise), you likely owe. Underpayment penalties are small but annoying. A 10-minute estimate beats an April surprise.
- Weekend reading: Your portfolio tracking app. Open CoinTracker. Check for anything you've forgotten about. A wallet you used once? A staking position you haven't checked? An NFT gathering dust? Tag, label, or unstake. 15 minutes now saves hours later.
- Myth: Moving crypto between your own wallets is a taxable event. Reality: It's not. But if your tracker doesn't know the wallets belong to you, it looks like a sale on one side and a purchase on the other. Label your wallets. Future you is begging.
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CoinTracker Enterprise is partnering with @tempo For finance teams running stablecoin payment flows, this is the accounting infrastructure you've been missing. ↓
- It’s Tax Day. New forms. New rules. Some 1099-DA confusion. But you made it through. If you still need to file, today is your final day, and CoinTracker will help you get it done clearly and correctly.
A tax extension gives you an extra 6 months to file your return (new deadline: October 15). How to file: Submit IRS Form 4868 online. It's free and takes minutes. Then use CoinTracker to pull together your complete crypto tax report before the new deadline.
