Taxooor answers
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- Crypto taxes, answered in the IRS's own words
What the IRS itself says about selling, swapping, spending, staking, mining, airdrops and losses, each one quoted with the date it was read.
- Can you write off crypto losses: the sentence the IRS published, and the one it did not
The IRS FAQ recognises a loss on a sale and limits it in the same sentence. What that clause says, and what the guidance leaves unanswered.
- DeFi taxes: a recorded absence in the US, a manual section in the UK
Neither IRS page read here uses the words DeFi or decentralised finance. HMRC's manual has a section on it. What each one does and does not say.
- Crypto cost basis: what the published answers settle, and what they refer out
The IRS FAQ defines cost basis outright, lets you pick the units you sold, and defaults to FIFO if you do not. The three answers, quoted.
- Crypto wash sale: a question the guidance in this ledger does not answer
Neither IRS page read here addresses the wash sale rule for digital assets. What they do say about losses, and how the UK 30-day rule differs.
- Tax loss harvesting crypto: which parts the IRS has actually written down
No authority publishes a harvesting strategy. The four published IRS rules any such strategy rests on, quoted, with the two gaps named.
- Crypto tax software UK: the output HMRC's own guidance asks for
HMRC names two reporting routes and a 30-day rule that changes the arithmetic. The output any UK tool has to produce, quoted from the guidance.