How to make a crypto tax report from all your wallets and exchanges
Bring every wallet and exchange together, pick your country's rules and cost basis method, fix what's missing, and export files your accountant or tax tool can use.
Updated Nov 8, 2026
In short
A crypto tax report needs every account in one place, so moves between your own wallets aren't counted as sales and every coin keeps what you paid for it. Connect all your wallets and exchanges, choose where you file, the tax year and a cost basis method your country allows, then check what's flagged: sales with no known cost and transactions that need a label. Export the report as a PDF and as CSV files for your accountant or a tax tool. A report like this is an estimate for your records, not tax advice.
Crypto taxes are hard mostly because of bookkeeping, not maths. Coins move between wallets, exchanges and chains, and every move has to be followed so the right cost goes with each sale. Do it account by account and you get it wrong: a transfer from your exchange to your own wallet looks like a sale on one side and a free gift on the other.
Step 1: put every account in one place
Add every wallet by address and every exchange with a read-only key, including ones you've stopped using but traded on during the year. The more of your history Burokku can read, the fewer gaps you'll fill by hand. See how to track all your crypto wallets in one place.
For anything that isn't onchain or on a connected exchange, add a manual account and enter its transactions, or import them as CSV.
Step 2: choose where you file and the period
Open the Tax report tool, pick where you file and the tax year. Burokku uses that country's rules, currency and local dates, with its own files where it has them, in 28 countries: Form 8949 rows in the US, the computation and Section 104 pool file in the UK, the adjusted cost base ledger in Canada, the parcel list in Australia, and more. Choose wallet by wallet or across all your accounts, where your country lets you.
Step 3: pick a cost basis method
If your country lets you choose, pick first in, first out (FIFO), highest cost first (HIFO) or average cost; Burokku shows your country's default. The method changes which purchase each sale is matched with, and so your gain. A worked example: what is cost basis?
Step 4: check what's flagged
- Sales with no known cost. Usually coins that arrived from somewhere Burokku can't read. Add the cost or the missing account.
- Transactions that need a label. Burokku asks rather than guessing.
- Payments to others. Choose whether sending crypto to someone else counts as a sale.
Moves between your own wallets and exchanges are matched by their transaction hash on both sides, so they're not counted as sales. Rewards, claims and airdrops count as income at their value when you received them.
Step 5: export it
Print or save as PDF for a readable report. Download your country's files, plus the sales, income and balances as CSV. If you or your accountant use a tax tool, export for Koinly (perpetuals included), CoinTracker or ZenLedger. Each year's report is saved with your account for when you need it again.
A report like this is an estimate for your records and your accountant. Tax rules differ by country and change; check yours, or ask a professional.
Questions
- Which cost basis method should I use?
- The one your country allows or requires. Some set it (the UK's pooling rules, for example); others let you choose between FIFO, highest cost first or average cost. Burokku shows your country's default and explains each; your accountant can tell you which suits you.
- My exchange only shares part of my history. What then?
- Coins sold with no purchase in the history read have no known cost. Burokku counts those sales apart, with their proceeds, so you can add the cost from an old statement instead of reporting too large a gain.
- Are perpetual futures included?
- Yes, counted apart from spot: what closing positions realised, funding received and paid, and trading fees.
- Is it free?
- During early access every account has everything. After it, Pro includes a tax report each year.