The One Crypto Tax Strategy to Know!

<p>Because cryptocurrencies are classified as “property” rather than as securities, the wash-sale rule does not apply if you sell a cryptocurrency holding for a loss and acquire the same cryptocurrency before or after the loss sale.</p> <p>You just have a garden-variety short-term or long-term capital loss depending on your holding period. No wash-sale rule worries.</p> <p>This favorable federal income tax treatment is consistent with the long-standing treatment of foreign currency losses.</p> <p>That’s a good thing, because folks who actively trade cryptocurrencies know that prices are volatile. And this volatility gives you two opportunities:</p> <ol> <li>profits on the upswings</li> <li>loss harvesting on the downswings</li> </ol>