CRYPTO GLOSSARY

Disposal

Any event where crypto leaves your hands for tax purposes: selling it, swapping it for another crypto, or spending it.

Disposal in more detail

Capital gains tax. When you dispose of crypto, you compare what you got for it with what you paid. The difference is a gain or a loss. Lesson 57 covers the sums.

Paying a transaction fee in crypto. The coins used for the fee are disposed of.

You have received no dollars. You still have a $3,000 gain to report, because you disposed of the bitcoin for something worth $8,000. Your ether now has a starting cost of $8,000.

FROM LESSON 56 · 4 MIN READHow crypto is taxed: the basicsCrypto is taxed as property in the United States. Learn which actions are taxable, which are not, the difference between capital gains and income, and why swapping one coin for another counts.Read the lesson

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