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  • Cryptocurrency Tax Guide for US Individuals
    • Virtual Currency & Cryptocurrency
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  • CRYPTOCURRENCY TAX
    • Do I Need to Pay Tax on my Crypto?
    • Which Taxes Apply?
      • Capital Gains Tax (CGT)
      • Income Tax
      • Non-Taxable Transactions
    • How Much Tax Will I Pay?
    • Capital Gains Tax
      • Calculating the Capital Gains and Losses
      • Cost Basis Methods
      • Disposal proceeds
        • Non Taxable Events
        • Taxable Events
        • Donating cryptocurrency to a charitable organization
        • Gifting cryptocurrency to another person
    • Income Tax
      • Receiving cryptocurrency from mining
      • Receiving cryptocurrency rewards
      • Forks
      • Airdrops
      • Tax on Tokenswaps and Mainnetswaps
    • Deductibles and Reducing Capital Gains
  • TRANSACTION TYPES
    • 💷Selling Crypto for Fiat
    • 🛍️Purchases using Crypto
    • 🔄Exchanging one crypto for a different crypto
    • 🎗️Donations to Qualified Charities
    • 🎁Gifts
    • 🎈Airdrops
    • 🤝Staking
    • 💸Transfers
    • 🍴Forks
    • ⛏️Mining
    • 👛Employment income
    • 🚨Lost & Stolen Crypto
    • 💧Liquidity Pools
    • 🔮Cryptoasset derivatives (CFDs, Futures and Margin Trading)
    • 💼Crypto Loans
    • 💎Lending Rewards
    • 🪞Reflections Rewards
    • 👥Referral Income
    • 💳Cashback
    • 🎨NFTs (Non Fungible Tokens)
    • 🎮Play-to-earn gaming NFTs
  • Record Keeping
  • Reporting Income and Gains to the IRS and Paying the Tax
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  1. TRANSACTION TYPES

Cryptoasset derivatives (CFDs, Futures and Margin Trading)

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Crypto margin trading, futures and other CFDs

Individual traders will pay capital gains tax on any margin trades or other CFDs. When you open a new position, you pay no tax, however, when this position closes you realise a capital gain or loss and a taxable event occurs. The same short-term and long-term Capital Gains Tax rates apply to these transactions.

When it comes to crypto futures - if you're trading regulated crypto futures, you can apply the 60/40 rule to get a more favourable tax treatment. This is because of the IRS rule. This rule allows investors to treat 60% of their gains as long-term gains and 40% as short term gains regardless of how long a position is kept open. The vast majority of crypto futures are (as-yet) unregulated and as such these rules cannot be applied.

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