How to Do Your Bittrex Taxes

How To Do Your Bittrex Taxes

CoinLedger imports Bittrex data for easy tax reporting. Create the appropriate tax forms to submit to your tax authority.

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Bittrex Tax Reporting

You can generate your gains, losses, and income tax reports from your Bittrex investing activity by connecting your account with CoinLedger. Connect your account by importing your data through the method discussed below.

Bittrex exports a complete Transaction History file to all users. Simply navigate to your Bittrex account and download your transaction history from the platform.
Import your transaction history directly into CoinLedger. Import the file as is. No manual work is required!
CoinLedger automatically generates your gains, losses, and income tax reports based on this data.

File these crypto tax forms yourself, send them to your tax professional, or import them into your preferred tax filing software like TurboTax or TaxAct.

Bittrex Tax Reporting

Bittrex supports importing data via read-only API. This allows automatic import capability so no manual work is required.
Connect CoinLedger to your Bittrex account with the read-only API.
Let CoinLedger import your data and automatically generate your gains, losses, and income tax reports.

File these crypto tax forms yourself, send them to your tax professional, or import them into your preferred tax filing software like TurboTax or TaxAct.

Bittrex Tax Reporting

You can generate your gains, losses, and income tax reports from your Bittrex investing activity by connecting your account with CoinLedger. There are a couple different ways to connect your account and import your data:

Automatically sync your Bittrex account with CoinLedger via read-only API. This allows your transactions to be imported with the click of a button.
Upload your Bittrex Transaction History CSV file to CoinLedger. You can download your Transaction History CSV directly from Bittrex and import it into CoinLedger

Both methods will enable you to import your transaction history and generate your necessary crypto tax forms in minutes. File these forms yourself, send them to your tax professional, or import them into your preferred tax filing software like TurboTax or TaxAct.

Bittrex Tax Reporting

Automatically sync your Bittrex account with CoinLedger by entering your public wallet address. This allows your transactions to be read in directly from the blockchain.
Upload a Bittrex Transaction History CSV file to CoinLedger

Bittrex Tax Reporting

Navigate to your Bittrex account and find the option for downloading your complete transaction history.
Import your transaction history directly into CoinLedger by mapping the data into the preferred CSV file format.
CoinLedger automatically generates your gains, losses, and income tax reports based on this data.

File these crypto tax forms yourself, send them to your tax professional, or import them into your preferred tax filing software like TurboTax or TaxAct.

How Cryptocurrency Taxes Work

Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are treated as property by many governments around the world—including the U.S. Other forms of property that you may be familiar with include stocks, bonds, and real-estate.

Just like these other forms of property, cryptocurrencies are subject to capital gains and losses rules, and you need to report your gains, losses, and income generated from your crypto investments on your taxes.

For a complete and in-depth overview, please refer to our Complete Guide to Cryptocurrency Taxes.

How To Do Your Crypto Taxes

To do your cryptocurrency taxes, you need to calculate your gains, losses, and income from your cryptocurrency investments in your home fiat currency (e.g. US Dollar, Australian Dollar, etc.).

Once you have your calculations, you can fill out the necessary tax forms required by your country. If you are in the United States, you can learn which forms you need to fill out with our blog post: How to Report Cryptocurrency On Your Taxes.

Why Can't Bittrex Generate My Tax Forms?

Many cryptocurrency investors use additional exchanges, wallets, and platforms outside of Bittrex. Perhaps you also trade on Coinbase or earn interest from BlockFi. The trouble with Bittrex's reporting is that it only extends as far as the Bittrex platform. If you use additional cryptocurrency wallets, exchanges, DeFi protocols, or other platforms outside of Bittrex, Bittrex can't provide complete gains, losses, and income tax information.

How Does Cryptocurrency Tax Software Help?

By integrating with all of your cryptocurrency platforms and consolidating your crypto data, CoinLedger’s cryptocurrency tax software and crypto portfolio tracker are able to track your profits, losses, income, and generate accurate tax reports in a matter of minutes.

You can test out the software and generate a preview of your gains and losses completely for free by creating an account.

Learn more about how CoinLedger works here.

Bittrex has shut down. Its US operations closed in April 2023, and Bittrex Global stopped trading in December 2023, so you can no longer buy, sell, or trade there. But if you used Bittrex, you still need to report the gains, losses, and income from your past activity, and this guide walks you through how, even though the platform is gone.

Doing your Bittrex taxes still comes down to four steps:

Gather your Bittrex transaction history. Because the exchange has shut down, this is the hard part, and most of this guide is about how to do it (see below).
Sort your transfers. Moving crypto between your own wallets is not taxable, but crypto that came in as income (like rewards) is.
Calculate your capital gain or loss on each disposal, plus the value of any crypto income at the time you received it.
Report it on the right forms. In the US, capital gains go on Form 8949 and Schedule D, and crypto income goes on Schedule 1. If you left Bittrex activity off a past return, you may need to file an amended return.

For a detailed explainer on reporting crypto from any exchange, see our guide on how to report your cryptocurrency on your taxes.

Reconstructing history from a closed exchange is exactly what crypto tax software is good at. CoinLedger takes whatever Bittrex records you can gather, matches them against your other wallets and exchanges, and generates your tax forms automatically. More than 700,000 investors use it. Get started with a free account today, or keep reading to do it yourself.

Do you still owe taxes on Bittrex activity if it shut down?

Yes. A closed exchange does not erase your past taxable events. For every year you traded, sold, or earned income on Bittrex, you still need to report your capital gains, losses, and income. If you already filed for those years without including your Bittrex activity, you may need to file an amended return.

What tax forms does Bittrex provide?

Bittrex no longer issues any tax forms. While it operated, it sent Form 1099-MISC to some US users who earned reward income, but most users received nothing and were responsible for their own calculations. Form 1099-DA never applied to Bittrex, since the exchange shut down before that broker-reporting form took effect for the 2025 tax year. You report your Bittrex activity from your own records.

How to get your Bittrex transaction history

This is the hard part of a closed exchange: the old "log in and export a CSV" flow is no longer reliable. Here is how to get your data, in order of preference.

Use a CSV you already saved. If you exported your Bittrex order history before the shutdown, that file still works, upload it to CoinLedger (see below). This is the cleanest path.
Try logging in. Some former users can still sign in and download their order history and their deposit/withdrawal history from the Orders section. If you can, do that, and file a support ticket for a complete record, since the site only ever showed a partial history. This may no longer be available, so verify. Only use the official Bittrex sites, and be careful: many "Bittrex login" search results are lookalike phishing pages.
Reconstruct it. If you have no access and no saved file, rebuild your history from your year-end statements and trade-confirmation emails, the on-chain deposit and withdrawal records that moved crypto into and out of Bittrex, and the other exchange or wallet on the other side of each transfer, whose export shows what it sent to or received from Bittrex.

What if your funds were locked in the bankruptcy?

Bittrex filed for bankruptcy in 2023. If your balance was frozen and later returned or liquidated through that process, those events have their own tax treatment: assets returned to you in kind are generally not taxable, while assets liquidated for cash can trigger a capital gain or loss. Crypto bankruptcy losses are a gray area, so consider working with a tax professional. In CoinLedger, you can tag these as Bankruptcy Recovery (non-taxable) or Bankruptcy Liquidation (taxable).

Why your Bittrex records may be incomplete

Even a full export from Bittrex only shows the activity that happened on Bittrex. Because investors regularly transfer crypto between wallets and exchanges, a coin that arrived at Bittrex from somewhere else has no cost basis attached, and a coin you withdrew has no disposal recorded, so a Bittrex-only import can be incomplete or wrong.

Example: why transfers break your cost basis

Robert buys $2,000 of BTC on another exchange. He transfers it to Bittrex, then later sells it for $3,000 on Bittrex.

The Bittrex record only shows the $3,000 sale, not the $2,000 Robert originally paid. Without his cost basis, the gain cannot be calculated correctly.

The fix is to import every wallet and exchange that ever sent to or received from Bittrex, in the same account, so CoinLedger can match your transfers and carry your cost basis across platforms. This matters even more for Bittrex, because its on-site history was incomplete and you may be reconstructing from partial data.

How to report your Bittrex taxes with CoinLedger

Once you have your Bittrex data, import it into CoinLedger. Upload your Bittrex CSV on the Bittrex tab, or use the Universal Manual Import template if you are entering reconstructed data by hand. Automatic API import is no longer possible, since Bittrex is offline.

CoinLedger then matches your transfers, calculates your gains, losses, and income, and produces a complete tax report. You can file it yourself, hand it to your tax professional, or import it into TurboTax, TaxAct, or H&R Block. Full steps are in our Bittrex file import guide and our guide to importing from a bankrupt or defunct exchange.

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