Crypto Tax · North London
Crypto tax returns in Pentonville
If you have bought, sold, swapped, staked or been airdropped crypto from Pentonville, you probably have something to report even if you never converted to pounds. Swapping one token for another is a disposal. We untangle the history, apply the rules and tell you the figure, for a published fee that covers North London and the rest of the UK alike.
from £199 · fixed, per report
Next deadlines
- Online Self Assessment filing deadline and balancing payment due
- Tax year ends: last day for pension, ISA and dividend timing decisions
- Second payment on account due
- Register for Self Assessment if you started self-employment or new untaxed income in the last tax year
Who this is for
Crypto Tax for Pentonville
Individuals in Pentonville who hold or have held cryptoassets: long-term investors with a few disposals, active traders with thousands of swaps across several exchanges, people earning staking or lending yield, NFT buyers and sellers, those who received airdrops or forks, anyone who has had an HMRC nudge letter, and people with losses from collapsed exchanges or rug-pulled tokens to claim.
What is included
Everything inside the fixed fee
- Transaction history imported from exchanges and wallets, with transfers between your own wallets matched and excluded
- Capital gains computed under HMRC's section 104 pooling, same-day and 30-day rules for every token
- Staking, mining, airdrop, lending and DeFi income identified and reported as miscellaneous or trading income
- Losses calculated and claimed, including negligible value claims for worthless or lost tokens
- A report you can keep: disposals, proceeds, allowable costs, gains, losses and the pool position for each asset
- Self Assessment capital gains pages and income pages completed and filed in the £279 package
How it works
Crypto Tax from Pentonville, step by step
Tell us your situation
A short message or call about what you do and what needs filing. We ask the questions that determine the right package and nothing more.
Fixed fee in writing
You receive one price for the work, confirmed by email before anything starts. It does not change if the job takes longer than we expected.
Send records, review the draft
Records come by WhatsApp or email. We prepare the draft, explain the figures in plain English and answer your questions.
We file, you get the receipts
Once you approve and the fee is settled, we submit electronically and forward the HMRC or Companies House acknowledgement the same day.
Why IGI
What you get in Pentonville
One fixed fee for crypto tax in Pentonville, agreed in writing before any work starts and never changed part-way through the job, however long it takes us.
Nothing for Pentonville is left to the last week. Each deadline relevant to crypto tax is tracked from the day you join, with the next four shown on every page we send you.
No appointments, no travel across North London, no parking. Everything for crypto tax in Pentonville happens online, with a real person on the other end during UK working hours.
You get one contact for crypto tax, not a queue. Pentonville clients message the same person throughout and get an answer in working hours, usually within a few hours.
The output for Pentonville clients is never just a form. It is the form, a one-page summary of what it says, and a note of the decisions it points to for crypto tax.
Approval before filing is a rule, not a courtesy. For crypto tax in Pentonville, every submission to HMRC or Companies House follows your written go-ahead.
Local facts
About Pentonville
Pentonville is in North London, within Islington, in the N1 postcode district, England. Income tax in England follows the UK rates: 20% basic to £50,270, 40% higher to £125,140 and 45% additional, with the personal allowance of £12,570 tapered away above £100,000. National Insurance, VAT and Corporation Tax are UK-wide, and Stamp Duty Land Tax applies to property purchases.
| Place | Distance | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| King's Cross | 0.3 mi | W |
| Kings Cross | 0.3 mi | W |
| Angel | 0.4 mi | E |
| Barnsbury, Islington | 0.5 mi | N |
| Caledonian | 0.6 mi | N |
| St. Pancras and Somers Town | 0.7 mi | W |
| Clerkenwell | 0.7 mi | SE |
| Somers Town | 0.7 mi | W |
Worth knowing
Rules that come up in this work
Switching accountants
You can switch accountant at any point in the year. The new firm requests clearance and your records from the old one, which cannot withhold your own documents though it may hold its own working papers until its fees are settled. Agent authorisations with HMRC and Companies House are transferred, and the next deadline is picked up without a gap.
Closing a company
Striking off a company is cheap but must be done in order: stop trading, file the final accounts and CT600, pay the tax, close VAT and PAYE, distribute the remaining assets, close the bank account, then apply. Anything left in the company at dissolution passes to the Crown. Distributions up to £25,000 are taxed as capital gains; above that a formal liquidation is usually needed to keep capital treatment.
Employer National Insurance
Since April 2025 employer National Insurance has been 15% on earnings above a £5,000 secondary threshold, a substantial increase for small employers. The Employment Allowance rose to £10,500 at the same time to soften it for the smallest businesses. Directors deciding their own salary weigh this cost against the Corporation Tax deduction a salary provides.
Workplace pensions and auto-enrolment
Every employer must assess its workers for automatic enrolment from the first employee's start date. Those aged 22 to State Pension age earning over £10,000 a year must be enrolled into a qualifying pension with minimum contributions of 8% of qualifying earnings, at least 3% from the employer, and a declaration of compliance made to the Pensions Regulator within five months.
Dormant companies
Dormancy is a status that is easy to lose. The strict rule is no accounting transactions other than share capital and Companies House fees, which means no bank account activity at all in practice. Fees should be paid personally by the director. A company that traded and has stopped becomes dormant only after its final trading accounts and tax return are filed and HMRC is told.
The trading and property allowances
The first £1,000 of trading income and, separately, the first £1,000 of property income each year is tax free under the trading and property allowances. Below those figures no return is needed for that income. Above them you can deduct the £1,000 allowance instead of actual expenses if that is better, which suits side businesses and single-room lets with few costs.
Crypto records and reporting
Most crypto holders have taxable events they do not recognise, because every swap is a disposal even when no pounds change hands. The computation requires the complete transaction history from every exchange and wallet, pooled by asset with HMRC's matching rules applied. Exchange-generated tax reports are frequently wrong because they cannot see transfers between a user's own wallets.
Questions
Crypto Tax questions from Pentonville
How far back do I need to go?
The pool cost of what you hold today depends on every purchase you have ever made, so the computation must start from your first transaction even if you only need to report recent years. If earlier years were under-reported, we quantify the position and advise on disclosure, which HMRC treats far more leniently than discovery.
What if I am a trader rather than an investor?
HMRC rarely accepts that an individual is trading in crypto; the bar is very high and the badges of trade must be met. If you are trading, profits are income and losses are trading losses. For almost everyone the capital gains treatment applies, and we tell you plainly which side of the line you are on.
Do I need to register for Self Assessment just for crypto?
If your total disposals exceed £50,000 in the year, or your gains exceed the £3,000 allowance, or you have taxable crypto income, yes. Register by 5 October after the tax year. Since 2024/25 the return has a dedicated section for cryptoassets. We handle registration where you are not already filing.
Are NFTs treated the same as coins?
Each NFT is a separate asset, so pooling does not apply; the gain is proceeds less the cost of that specific token including gas fees. Creating and selling NFTs regularly may be trading income rather than capital gains. Royalties received are income. We classify each case from the facts.
What are the Capital Gains Tax rates and allowance?
The annual exempt amount is £3,000 for 2026/27. Gains above it are taxed at 18% within your basic rate band and 24% above it. Losses in the year are set against gains automatically, and unused losses can be carried forward indefinitely if claimed on a return within four years.
Is staking income a capital gain?
No. Rewards from staking, lending, liquidity provision and most DeFi protocols are income when received, taxed at your income tax rate on the sterling value that day, and reported as miscellaneous income unless your activity amounts to a trade. The tokens then enter your pool at that value for a later capital gain or loss.
Do you have an office in Pentonville?
No. IGI Accounting is an online-only firm. We serve Pentonville and every other UK postcode remotely, with records sent by WhatsApp or email and everything filed electronically. The absence of local premises is why the fee for crypto tax is the same in Pentonville as anywhere else in the country, and why there is nothing to visit and nothing to print.
Is crypto tax in Pentonville really the same price as elsewhere?
Yes. The fee published on this page is what a client in Pentonville pays and what a client in any other part of England pays. It is confirmed in writing before work starts and the invoice matches the quote. Where a higher package applies because your situation is more complex, we say so at the quote stage, never afterwards.
One message from Pentonville, one fixed price
Tell us what you need. You get one fixed fee in writing, and nothing is filed until you approve it.