Cryptocurrency Taxation

Cryptocurrency Taxation is a practical Finance course for anyone who needs to understand how U.S. tax rules apply to digital assets. Through clear lessons on crypto transactions, reporting, records, and compliance, students learn how to approach tax season with better structure and confidence.

Build Practical Tax Skills For Cryptocurrency Finance Decisions

• Learn how the IRS classifies cryptocurrency and when digital asset activity may create taxable income or capital gains.
• Understand cost basis, fair market value, holding periods, lot identification, and the reporting workflow for crypto transactions.
• Gain practical guidance on DeFi, NFTs, stablecoins, mining, staking, airdrops, losses, gifts, donations, and business use.
• Follow A practical U.S. tax course on digital assets with Professor David Grant designed for students, investors, creators, and professionals.

Cryptocurrency Taxation teaches the Finance fundamentals needed to identify, document, and report common digital asset tax activity in the United States.

This course begins with the foundations of digital assets and the tax landscape, including how the IRS treats cryptocurrency and which events may be taxable or non-taxable. Students then move into core tax concepts such as capital gains, ordinary income, proceeds, cost basis, fair market value, holding periods, and basis methods.

As the course progresses, Professor David Grant explains how everyday crypto activity can affect tax reporting, including selling, swapping, spending, transfers, network fees, wallet management, mining, staking, rewards, and airdrops. More advanced lessons cover DeFi lending, liquidity pools, yield activity, NFTs, creator royalties, stablecoins, wrapped assets, bridging, theft claims, donations, contractors, merchant payments, and business use.

Students also learn how to organize exchange reports, address Form 1099-DA and data gaps, build a tax-ready crypto ledger, and prepare reporting for Form 8949, Schedule D, and related forms. By the end of Cryptocurrency Taxation, students will be better prepared to evaluate digital asset transactions, maintain cleaner records, communicate with tax professionals, and make more informed Finance decisions around cryptocurrency.