Crypto tax attorneys for IRS letters, audits, unreported years, and returns that hold up.
Form 1099-DA, blockchain analytics, and John Doe summons data mean the IRS now sees crypto activity it could not see before. We respond to the letters, defend the audits, fix the unreported years under attorney-client privilege, and prepare returns that reconcile to what the IRS has. The firm has done this work since 2014, when an Ethereum developer became its first crypto client.
Crypto tax services
Most crypto clients arrive with one of three problems: a letter, an audit, or a return that has to be right. Pick the one that fits.
Clear answers on questions the IRS has left open for a decade.
Crypto is taxed as property under a 2014 notice, so every trade, swap, and purchase is a sale, every reward is income, and the basis has to be tracked per wallet. Most of the questions that matter, on staking, DeFi, wrapping, bridging, and losses, have no direct IRS answer. Positions have to be taken, documented, and defended.
That is legal work as much as accounting work. Our attorneys and the accountants at Gordon Tax do it together, so the reconciliation, the return, and the defense come from one team. More than 1,500 crypto tax reports since 2014.
Results depend on the facts of each matter and are not a prediction of the outcome in your case.
New IRS crypto reporting rules, from a CPA.
Who handles crypto tax matters
Every crypto matter is staffed by an attorney, with Gordon Tax accountants on the reconciliation.
Questions people ask before they call
Straight answers to the questions that come up first. The consultation is where we answer the rest.
Staking, liquidity pools, wrapped tokens, bridges, airdrops, and NFTs each raise their own questions, and the answers depend on what actually happened on chain. Ask how they would treat a specific transaction you have done. A general answer is a warning sign.
Koinly, CoinLedger, CoinTracker, and the rest produce a starting point, not a return. Ask what the reconciliation process is: how transfers between your own wallets are identified, how missing basis is resolved, and how the totals are tied to broker forms. If the answer is “we import the report,” keep looking.
On questions with no IRS answer, there is usually a conservative position and a more assertive one that can still be defended. A good advisor explains both, tells you the risk of each, and documents the one you choose. A written opinion is available when the amounts justify it.
Since 2025 basis is tracked per wallet, and specific identification requires records made at the time of sale. Ask how lots are identified and how the choice is documented, because that is the first thing an auditor examines.
A preparer who has never seen an examination will not know what the examiner asks for or how the Historical Digital Asset Form is used. Ask who would represent you if the IRS writes, and whether that person is an attorney, because only an attorney offers privilege and Tax Court representation.
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Tell us what is going on. A member of our client success team follows up, explains how we work, and matches you with the attorney whose background fits your matter.
