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Aventine
Returning Member

Entering or importing Crypto from Coinbase in Turbo Tax Premier Desktop

For some reason, TurboTax Premier online 2023 is not reading the Coinbase .csv, nor can it import it directly from Coinbase, who is a TurboTax partner.  Can anyone help? This worked last year for me, but not this year.  

This is frustrating, because they should just build it into the desktop software and be done with it.

 

 

 

JamesG1
Expert Alumni

Entering or importing Crypto from Coinbase in Turbo Tax Premier Desktop

I was be able to upload a .csv file by following these steps: 

 

  • Go to Federal / Wages & Income / Your income / Investments and Savings.
  • Click Start / Revisit to the right of Stocks, Cryptocurrency, Mutual Funds, Bonds, Other.
  • Click Add investments.
  • At the screen Get ready to be impressed, click Continue.
  • At the screen Let’s import your tax info, click Enter a different way.
  • At the screen OK, let’s start with one investment type, select Cryptocurrency.  Click Continue.
  • At the screen Select your crypto experience, select Upload.  Click Continue.
  • At the screen What’s the name of the crypto service, select Other.  Enter the name of the service if prompted.
  • Click Continue.
  • At the screen Go ahead and upload your crypto CSV file, upload the file.

 

The .csv should follow this format.

 

  • All the columns from the .csv file were deleted except for the five columns listed below.   
  • All other lines other than the headings and the five columns of data were deleted.

 

  •    Purchase Date
  •    Date Sold
  •    Proceeds
  •    Cost Basis
  •    Currency Name

 

.csv file format.

 

           A                   B              C                  D                   E

purchase date  date sold    proceeds   cost basis   currency name

11/24/2021        2/1/2022    1,779.96     1,916.52         ABFOA

12/7/2021          4/1/2022    1,111.46     1,225.45         ABFOA

11/24/2021        3/1/2022    1,638.54     1,638.54         ABFOA

 

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Entering or importing Crypto from Coinbase in Turbo Tax Premier Desktop

Brilliant!  Edit (remove) the Coinbase spreadsheet columns not required by EasyTXF app (and perhaps rows if you have interest paying coins), upload, import the now downloaded txf file into TurboTax, and it's all there!  High-five to EasyTXF, also!  I know it's a lot of programming, but I am disappointed that the Premier desktop version couldn't handle it.  Maybe next year?

Entering or importing Crypto from Coinbase in Turbo Tax Premier Desktop

spoiler alert, still not fixed for desktop version lol

Sdgross2
New Member

Entering or importing Crypto from Coinbase in Turbo Tax Premier Desktop

They were not!

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