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Crypto Tax · South West

Crypto tax returns in Taunton

Crypto tax in Taunton done by accountants who understand pooling, DeFi and the difference between a capital gain and miscellaneous income. The £199 report covers up to 500 transactions; high-volume traders with more are £399; a response to an HMRC nudge letter is £249. Nothing is filed until you have reviewed and approved every figure.

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 Taunton

Individuals in Taunton 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 Taunton, step by step

  1. Scope the job

    We find out what you need filed, when it is due and what state the records are in, and tell you which fixed-fee package applies.

  2. Agree the price

    The fee is confirmed in writing. There is no hourly billing and nothing added for questions during the work.

  3. Hand over the records

    Photographs, PDFs, software access or a spreadsheet, sent however suits you. We confirm what we have and what is missing within two working days.

  4. Approve, then we submit

    You review the draft with our explanation, sign off, and we file. Receipts, copies and the next deadlines come back to you immediately.

Why IGI

The IGI way of working, in Taunton

One fixed fee for crypto tax in Taunton, agreed in writing before any work starts and never changed part-way through the job, however long it takes us.

We work to the HMRC and Companies House calendar, not an appointment diary. Clients in Taunton get reminders at 60, 30 and 7 days before each date that applies to crypto tax.

No appointments, no travel across South West, no parking. Everything for crypto tax in Taunton happens online, with a real person on the other end during UK working hours.

A named person handles your crypto tax from Taunton and knows the file, so you are not re-explaining your business to a different helpdesk each time.

The output for Taunton 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.

Nothing is filed for Taunton until you have reviewed and approved it. You see the draft, you ask questions, you sign off, then we submit and send you the receipt.

Local facts

About Taunton

Taunton is in South West, in the TA1 postcode district, England. For businesses in England the tax rules are those set by the UK Parliament: the 20/40/45% income tax bands, Class 4 National Insurance for the self-employed at 6% and 2%, Corporation Tax at 19% to 25%, and Stamp Duty Land Tax on property. Business rates are set locally by the council.

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Worth knowing

Rules that come up in this work

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.

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.

Allowable expenses

The expenses sole traders most often miss are home working costs, claimed by actual proportion or HMRC's flat rate, the business share of phone and internet, mileage at 45p for the first 10,000 business miles, and training that maintains existing skills. The ones most often claimed wrongly are commuting, entertaining customers and clothes that could be worn outside work.

Record keeping

Record keeping is a legal obligation with a penalty of up to £3,000 for failure, but its real value is in making every other filing cheaper and more defensible. Keep invoices, receipts, bank statements, mileage logs and any HMRC correspondence, digitally if you like, for five years after the relevant filing deadline for individuals and six years for companies and VAT.

The 60-day property CGT return

Selling UK residential property that was not your main home for the whole period of ownership triggers a separate Capital Gains Tax return, due within 60 days of completion along with payment of the tax. This is in addition to the annual Self Assessment. The gain is taxed at 18% or 24% depending on your income band, after the £3,000 annual exempt amount.

Crypto records and reporting

Crypto tax splits into capital gains on disposals and income on rewards, with different rates and different reporting. The £3,000 annual exempt amount and the 18% and 24% rates apply to gains; staking, mining and airdrop income is taxed at marginal income tax rates. HMRC's nudge letters to holders have increased sharply, and a voluntary disclosure before one arrives is treated far more leniently.

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.

Questions

Crypto Tax questions from Taunton

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.

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.

How are gains calculated with so many purchases at different prices?

HMRC requires pooling: all units of the same token form one section 104 pool with an average cost, except that disposals are first matched against purchases on the same day and then against purchases within the following 30 days. We apply these rules across your entire history, which is impossible to do accurately by hand at any volume.

Do I pay tax if I never cashed out to pounds?

Usually yes. Swapping one cryptoasset for another, spending crypto on goods or services, and gifting it to anyone other than a spouse are all disposals for Capital Gains Tax, valued in sterling at the time. Only moving coins between your own wallets is not a disposal. Most people's taxable events are swaps, not sales for cash.

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.

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 crypto tax in Taunton really the same price as elsewhere?

Yes. The fee published on this page is what a client in Taunton 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.

Do you have an office in Taunton?

No. IGI Accounting is an online-only firm. We serve Taunton 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 Taunton as anywhere else in the country, and why there is nothing to visit and nothing to print.

Fixed fees, filed on time, for Taunton

Tell us what you need. You get one fixed fee in writing, and nothing is filed until you approve it.

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