Im 18 and I sold some stocks and crypto and im scared as shit, I don't want to mess calculations up and have the IRS up my ass, plus my dads gonna get pist off and doesn't understand cryptocurrency, i want the IRS to disappear already. Young anon is shitting his pants and needs help to calm down.
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You have to establish a cost basis for each coin you bought (Price plus fees) and subtract that from what you sold it for. If you swapped them back and forth it gets confusing but most wallets you use will have a record of your transactions. So if you bought 100$ worth of bitcoin and it goes up to $120 and you swap it for ether you have $20 capital gains(minus fees). The value if ether at the time you bought it is the new cb and so on. Short term if you held less than 1 year.
Also if youre only in coinbase (i suggest you put it in your own wallet, but make sure you know what you’re doing) it should be even easier. Stocks are easy your brokerage account will give you a form. As long as all your transactions were in that same account they do the math for you