Data Reveals Investors Claims Losses Despite Increase in Short-Term Crypto Tax Filers

Credit Karma Tax the personal finance firm stated that fillers who informed short-term capital losses for crypto assets at the start of 2019 bounced five times more year after year.  After the remarkable, 2018 bear market of crypto; prior data of tax filers underlines that numerous investors are claiming losses in this tax season. Meanwhile, in November the company recorded a survey and discovered that the people considering not to file crypto taxes has increased.

Tax Filers Mentions Short-Term Crypto Gains, and Losses Split Significantly

In April, tax season contacted a source; the source had mentioned about how the cryptocurrency holders did not care of filing. During that time, the Credit Karma Tax General Manager, Jagjit Chawla briefed less than 100 crypto holders (0.0004 percent) reported their gains to the IRS out of 250,000 cryptocurrency holders. Meanwhile, the 2019 tax season, has noticed a growth of people reporting their short-term capital losses. The data was shared with a source, and the company mentioned that filers who had reported about their short-term losses for bitcoin at the beginning of 2019 jumped to almost 521 percent if compared with the previous year data. Although, minimum short-term losses of BTC were around $3,405, an increase of 322 percent ever since the previous year tax season.

While at the beginning of 2019 tax filing season, there was a decline in short-term bitcoin gains, a decrease of 7 percent in the average amount of gains. Thirty-three percent of early filers informed their short-term gains year after year, report mentions.

The author of the document states:

“Investors with long-term gains are the winners so far this tax season, with early filers reporting an average gain of $15,352 during the first month of the 2019 filing season- up 103 percent from the same period last year,”

The survey reports that 47 percent of US investors still plan to avoid paying crypto taxes despite growth in short term filings.

Credit Karma Tax used a technique, starting collecting data from peoples who filed their 2018 federal income taxes with the company between 28 January and 22 February 2019. In comparison to the tax filers who presented their taxes of 2017 with the company between 29 January and 22 February of 2018. So year- on a year, the data revealed that people are accepting gains and losses more than the previous years of 2017 and 2018.

The information published on April 3 by Credit Karma Tax reported that the number could still increase. In November of 2018, the company had conducted a survey which included around 1,000 bitcoin investors aged from 18 and found that 47 percent of US investors did not intend to inform their crypto gains or losses. More than a third of the people who participated in the survey were unaware of the fact that they are required to inform on their tax returns, the company report mentioned.

Meanwhile, the sum of people paying taxes on cryptocurrencies is still very small as compared to the number of investors. In November 2017, a survey conducted by Lendedu reported that out of 1,000 US residents only 35.87 percent of participants responded to the survey, saying that they did not plan of informing gains or losses on their tax return.

In the previous year, some of the bitcoin supporters were upset over the previous year survey that revealed most of the crypto holders were not paying up their taxes so that the last year increase might anger them.