// australian crypto tax solution
CountDeFi.
Leaders in Australia crypto tax accounting.
CountDeFi offers specialised crypto tax accounting for Australian investors. We're not just accountants, we're data scientists who will reconstruct your full transaction history to deliver accurate, ATO-compliant tax reports.
If your porfolio is complex, or you're missing transaction history, CountDeFi can help with affordable plans.
We operate 100% online and in your time-zone.
Save Before The Rules Change
Australia's 50% CGT discount is under review. Before 30 June, understand your gains, losses, and cost bases so you can make informed decisions under today's rules.
Avoid Paying More Tax Than Necessary
Before 30 June, there may still be legitimate opportunities to reduce your crypto tax liability under current ATO rules. Reviewing gains, losses, cost bases, and transaction records before year-end can help ensure you don't pay more tax than legally required.
Get Support For Complex Crypto Tax
Complex crypto activity creates complex tax outcomes. Whether you're dealing with DeFi, staking, NFTs, missing records, or years of transaction history, CountDeFi can help.
// who we are
"CountDeFi is proud to offer tax reporting services to crypto tax investors around the world. Our Australia team is ready to calculate complex crypto taxes in accordance with ATO requirements."
Chris Herbst
Founder
// local CRYPTO TAX experts
Affordable expertise in complex Australian crypto accounting
Australian crypto tax has never been straightforward. We've been solving it since 2017, helping investors navigate everything from simple capital gains to complex DeFi, staking, NFTs, and multi-chain portfolios.
Usually, the biggest challenge isn't tax. It's data. Like DeFi lending loops that blur the line between capital and income. Or liquidity pool positions that create complex cost-base calculations. And staking rewards that need to be valued in AUD at the time they are received.
These aren't edge cases. It's the reality of modern crypto investing. Without solid data, you can never really know the full picture. So how can you be confident your crypto tax calculations are actually correct?
CountDeFi reconstructs incomplete transaction histories, traces activity across wallets, exchanges, and protocols, and delivers accurate, ATO-compliant tax reports you can file with confidence.
Getting your crypto taxes sorted doesn't have to cost a fortune. Pricing scales with transaction volume and complexity, and all plans include software fees, transaction reconciliation, and a complete tax report. View pricing →
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// ATO CRYPTO taxes
Our Australian crypto accounting services
Capital Gains Tax (CGT) Tracking
Australia treats cryptocurrency as a CGT asset rather than foreign currency. Every disposal, including selling, swapping, spending, or gifting crypto, may trigger a capital gains event. CountDeFi reconstructs your complete transaction history across wallets, exchanges, and DeFi protocols, ensuring accurate crypto tax calculations and ATO-compliant reporting.
CGT Discount Eligibility
Australian investors may be eligible for a 50% CGT discount when a crypto asset is held for more than 12 months before disposal. Determining eligibility becomes challenging when assets move between wallets, exchanges, and DeFi platforms. CountDeFi tracks acquisition dates and holding periods across your entire portfolio, ensuring CGT discounts are applied accurately where available.
NFT Tax Treatment
NFTs are generally treated as CGT assets in Australia, although certain activities may be assessed under business income rules. Frequent trading, NFT creation, royalties, and commercial activity can introduce additional tax considerations. CountDeFi categorises NFT transactions correctly, ensuring gains, losses, and income events are accurately reflected in your crypto tax reporting.
Multi-Exchange and Wallet Reconciliation
ATO reporting requires a complete and consistent record of your crypto activity across all exchanges, wallets, and DeFi protocols. Missing transactions can distort cost bases, gains, and income calculations. CountDeFi consolidates and reconciles all data sources, producing crypto tax reports that are complete, accurate, and audit-ready.
Investor vs Trader Classification
The tax treatment of crypto in Australia depends on whether you are considered an investor or carrying on a trading business. Factors such as transaction frequency, commercial intent, and the level of organisation can significantly impact your reporting obligations. CountDeFi analyses your activity profile in detail, supporting accurate classification and consistent ATO-compliant reporting.
Staking Rewards and Airdrop Income
The ATO generally treats staking rewards, airdrops, and many other token distributions as assessable income at their market value when received. These transactions often occur across multiple wallets and protocols, making them difficult to track manually. CountDeFi identifies, values, and categorises each income event, ensuring your crypto tax calculations align with ATO guidance.
DeFi Income vs Capital Events
DeFi transactions can generate both income and capital gains tax events, often within the same protocol interaction. Liquidity provision, lending, borrowing, staking, and token rewards may each have different tax outcomes. CountDeFi analyses every transaction individually, separating income events from disposals to produce accurate DeFi tax calculations that reflect the underlying economic activity.
AUD Valuation at Time of Transaction
The ATO requires crypto transactions to be valued in Australian Dollars at the time they occur. This applies to disposals, income events, NFT transactions, and DeFi activity. CountDeFi applies historical AUD pricing data to every transaction, ensuring your crypto tax calculations remain accurate, consistent, and compliant with ATO expectations.
// EXPERT SKILLS
Why Australian crypto investors hire CountDeFi
Most investors don't come to CountDeFi because they need a tax return.
They come to us because something doesn't add up. A balance is wrong. A wallet is missing. A DeFi position doesn't reconcile. An exchange has collapsed. Or a software report produces a tax bill that makes no sense.
That's where we help. By reconstructing transaction histories and validating the underlying data, we help ensure your crypto tax position reflects what actually happened, not just what a spreadsheet thinks happened. The ATO cares about accuracy. So should you.
Learn how CountDeFi deals with missing and incomplete transaction data.
// TAILORED PRECISION
Tax software battles with complex crypto
For many Australian investors, crypto tax software is a great starting point. But DeFi, staking, NFTs, bridge transfers, multiple wallets, and years of transaction history can quickly create situations where software struggles to interpret what actually happened. That's where we come in.
Our team reviews, reconciles, and validates the underlying data before finalising your report. The result is a complete, accurate, and audit-ready ATO crypto tax report you can file with confidence.
CountDeFi is Koinly's #1 Global Partner. We rate Koinly highly and use its calculation engine as part of our reporting workflow. If you already have a Koinly portfolio, bring it over — we can work with it.
// WORK WITH US
How to work with CountDeFi to calculate your ATO crypto tax report
At CountDeFi, we use our proprietary Precision 7 System to take you from data chaos to crypto tax clarity. It starts with onboarding every data source you have, validating them, and hunting down every gap before we go anywhere near a calculation. From there we reconcile and categorise every transaction.
Where data is incomplete, we come back to you. Nothing is left unaccounted for. Australian tax optimisation is built into the process, not bolted on at the end.
It starts with a free 15-minute consultation where we talk through your situation and arrive at the right pricing plan for your needs. We operate online and in your time zone. Start with an obligation free call today.
// FIVE STAR Global REVIEWS
Real reviews from crypto investors like you
Chris
Extremely professional process made it very simple and took countless hours of headache away. Definitely would recommend and will be using for my crypto taxes going forward
CA
Caleb
I recommend this service to anyone that has done very complex DeFi transactions and wants to remove the headache of dealing with thousands of transactions.
DE
Obie
Chris and the team were fantastic. Couldn't recommend CountDeFi highly enough! I had staking, NFTs, liquidity mining, etc. and they were really helpful, experienced and intelligent.
US
Frequently asked questions
When is the Australian crypto tax year?
Where do I report crypto in ATO myTax?
Australia's financial year runs from 1 July to 30 June. Crypto disposals, income and other taxable activity up to 30 June 2026 generally fall into your 2025–26 tax return. If you're considering year-end planning, don't wait until July: transactions made after 30 June fall into the next financial year.
It depends on how your crypto activity is treated. Investment disposals may need to be included in the capital gains section of your return, while crypto received as income or activity conducted as a business can require different reporting. CountDeFi prepares the reconciled crypto tax calculations and reports you need so the figures can be incorporated into your Australian tax return.
When is my 2026 Australian tax return due?
Should I lodge my tax return as soon as myTax opens in July?
If you lodge your own return, the standard ATO deadline is 31 October. If you use a registered tax agent, you may qualify for a later lodgment date, but you generally need to engage the agent before 31 October. Your individual deadline can vary depending on your circumstances.
Not necessarily. The ATO financial year ends on 30 June, but that doesn't mean 1 July is the best day to lodge. The ATO progressively adds pre-fill information to myTax and says most pre-fill information is generally available by the end of July. You also need to make sure your crypto transaction history for the full financial year has been reconciled before filing.
Where do I report crypto in ATO myTax?
Can I get an extension for my Australian tax return?
t depends on how your crypto activity is treated. Investment disposals may need to be included in the capital gains section of your return, while crypto received as income or activity conducted as a business can require different reporting. CountDeFi prepares the reconciled crypto tax calculations and reports you need so the figures can be incorporated into your Australian tax return.
Potentially. If you lodge your own tax return through ATO myTax, the standard deadline is 31 October. If you're registered with a tax agent by 31 October, you may be eligible for a later lodgment deadline under the ATO's tax agent lodgment program. The exact extension depends on your circumstances and lodgment history, so check your individual due date with your tax agent rather than assuming the later deadline applies automatically.
