Crypto tax news, for your country.
When the law on crypto changes in your country, you read it here, with what it means for your return.
- Greece
Greece: crypto gains taxed at 10% from 2027, and a penalty-free declaration of old gains is open now
Greece has written crypto into its income tax code. Law 5354/2026, published in the Government Gazette on 9 November 2026, adds article 42Β to the income tax code: from the 2027 tax year, the gain on selling crypto for money, spending it on goods or services, or contributing it to a company's…
- Portugal
Portugal: the paragraphs of art. 10.º CIRS are renumbered
Portugal has renumbered the paragraphs of art. 10.º CIRS: what were 17 to 22 are now 20 to 25, with nothing changed in substance. The 365-day exclusion is paragraph 22 today and crypto given for crypto paragraph 23 — worth knowing when you read an older guide or ruling.
- Austria
Austria: you choose which units leave your address, and a token merge is a swap
The finance ministry's 2026 maintenance decree to the income tax guidelines, issued on 21 April 2026, writes two answers into them. Where units of the same crypto sit at one address and not all of them were acquired after 28 February 2021, § 3 of the crypto regulation lets the taxpayer choose, from…
- Japan
Japan: 20% separate taxation for crypto sold through a registered exchange
The act amending the income tax law and others, promulgated on 31 March 2026 as Act No. 12 of 2026, gives crypto a regime of its own in Japan. Where a resident transfers a 特定暗号資産 — a crypto-asset entered in the register of financial instruments business operators — to a crypto-asset exchange…
- United Kingdom
United Kingdom: your exchange reports you to HMRC from 2026
From 1 January 2026 a crypto service provider with a connection to the United Kingdom must check who its users are and what they transact, and report it to HMRC. The first calendar year reported is 2026 and the report is due on or before 31 May 2027. The United Kingdom is outside DAC8 and does this…
- Italy
Italy: 33% on what is realised from 2026, and euro e-money tokens left out
What is realised on crypto-assets from 1 January 2026 is taxed in Italy at 33% instead of 26%. Beside it, a mere conversion between euro and a euro-denominated e-money token, and its redemption at nominal value, realise nothing at all. And the same provision keeps the old 26% for income from…
- Germany
Germany: the BMF letter of 6 March 2025 writes down what a swap does
The Federal Ministry of Finance's letter on crypto assets states that an exchange into euro, into goods or services, or into another crypto asset is a disposal, and that the one-year period of § 23 starts again after every swap. FIFO is allowed as a simplification, wallet by wallet.
- Spain
Spain: the savings scale reaches 30% from 2025
A crypto gain in Spain is taxed in the savings base, and from 2025 its top bracket is 30% on the part above 300 000 euro. The scale had already risen to 26% in 2021 and to 27% and 28% in 2023, so which year a disposal falls in decides its rate.
- Italy
Italy: the 2 000 euro threshold is gone from 2025
From 2025 a crypto gain is taxed in Italy from the first euro: the words that kept gains up to 2 000 euro a year out of tax were struck from art. 67 lett. c-sexies TUIR, and the same threshold went from the carry-forward of losses in art. 68 comma 9-bis.
- United Kingdom
United Kingdom: 3,000 pounds of gains tax-free, then 18% or 24%
Since 6 April 2024 the first 3,000 pounds of gains in a tax year are free of tax, where two years before it was 12,300. Since 30 October 2024 the rates are 18% and 24%, which of the two depending on the rest of your income. How a gain is worked out has not changed: what you sell is matched against…