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capgains: rendering fixes

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Simon Michael
2025-12-22 14:03:45 -10:00
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@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ Cryptocurrency tax calculator apps exist to meet this need. They
There are two kinds:
- Online cryptocurrency tax calculators.
- Online cryptocurrency tax calculators.\
Bitcoin.Tax, Cointracker, Coinledger, Koinly, Summ, TokenTax are some of these. While convenient, online calculators add rather serious privacy risk: when they are hacked or infiltrated, potentially your entire past, present and future cryptocurrency activities can be seen and analysed.
- Offline cryptocurrency tax calculators.
- Offline cryptocurrency tax calculators.\
These tend to be less featureful but more private, so we focus on them here. Some of them are:
- [BittyTax] - UK and US variants (can do wallet-based cost tracking by using multiple configs)
@@ -48,11 +48,13 @@ There are two kinds:
### Export from wallets to a cryptocurrency tax calculator
From each real-world cryptocurrency wallet,
- export its lifetime history of transactions as CSV
- transform this to the CSV format required by the tax calculator, and import it there
- and add any extra configuration required to help the calculator build a true picture of events
"Wallet" here has a broad meaning:
- a self-custodied wallet on a blockchain
- or the wallet on an exchange
- or each individual BIP 32 account within a multi-account wallet
@@ -92,11 +94,13 @@ In the USA, calculating cryptocurrency gains requires:
- tracking the acquisition date, cost, and wallet of every purchase/acquisition over your lifetime
- tracking these across transfers/splits/merges/disposals
- disposing them in a required order, such as:
- FIFO - first in first out
- LIFO - last in first out
- HIFO - highest cost first out
- LOFO - lowest cost first out
- SpecId - specific identification of lots
- and thereby calculating the capital gains or losses.
Before tax year 2025, disposal order was determined with "universal cost tracking" -