// Services
CountDeFi.
Leaders in Australia crypto tax accounting.
CountDeFi offers specialised crypto tax accounting for Australian investors. Reconstructing your full transaction history and delivering accurate, ATO-compliant reports. If you need bulletproof crypto accounting services, get started with a free consultation today. We operate 100% online and in your time-zone.
// local CRYPTO TAX experts
Seasoned experts in complex Australian crypto accounting
Australian crypto tax has been complicated since the beginning. We have been in it since 2017, longer than most firms have understood the difference between a capital gain and business income in the context of digital assets. If you are dealing with complex crypto activity and need ATO-compliant tax reporting you can actually stand behind, CountDeFi is your Australia crypto tax solution.
Some of the most common crypto activities produce the most complex and misclassified transactions under Australian tax law. DeFi lending loops that blur the line between capital and income. LP positions that affect your Adjusted Cost Base in ways most accountants miss. Staking rewards that need to be valued in AUD at the time of receipt. These are not edge cases. They are where most accountants and crypto tax software breaks down. CountDeFi goes deeper. We reconstruct incomplete transaction histories, trace how positions evolve across time, and deliver ATO-compliant tax reporting that reflects the true structure of your positions, however complex the underlying mechanics.
We operate 100% online and in your time-zone. Backed by 1,000+ clients. Rated 4.9/5 based on 150+ verified client reviews.
// ATO CRYPTO taxes
Our Australian crypto accounting services
Capital Gains Tax (CGT) Tracking
Australia treats cryptocurrency as a CGT asset rather than foreign currency. Every disposal, including selling, swapping, spending, or gifting crypto, may trigger a capital gains event. CountDeFi reconstructs your complete transaction history across wallets, exchanges, and DeFi protocols, ensuring accurate crypto tax calculations and ATO-compliant reporting.
CGT Discount Eligibility
Australian investors may be eligible for a 50% CGT discount when a crypto asset is held for more than 12 months before disposal. Determining eligibility becomes challenging when assets move between wallets, exchanges, and DeFi platforms. CountDeFi tracks acquisition dates and holding periods across your entire portfolio, ensuring CGT discounts are applied accurately where available.
NFT Tax Treatment
NFTs are generally treated as CGT assets in Australia, although certain activities may be assessed under business income rules. Frequent trading, NFT creation, royalties, and commercial activity can introduce additional tax considerations. CountDeFi categorises NFT transactions correctly, ensuring gains, losses, and income events are accurately reflected in your crypto tax reporting.
Multi-Exchange and Wallet Reconciliation
ATO reporting requires a complete and consistent record of your crypto activity across all exchanges, wallets, and DeFi protocols. Missing transactions can distort cost bases, gains, and income calculations. CountDeFi consolidates and reconciles all data sources, producing crypto tax reports that are complete, accurate, and audit-ready.
Investor vs Trader Classification
The tax treatment of crypto in Australia depends on whether you are considered an investor or carrying on a trading business. Factors such as transaction frequency, commercial intent, and the level of organisation can significantly impact your reporting obligations. CountDeFi analyses your activity profile in detail, supporting accurate classification and consistent ATO-compliant reporting.
Staking Rewards and Airdrop Income
The ATO generally treats staking rewards, airdrops, and many other token distributions as assessable income at their market value when received. These transactions often occur across multiple wallets and protocols, making them difficult to track manually. CountDeFi identifies, values, and categorises each income event, ensuring your crypto tax calculations align with ATO guidance.Two circles with arrows and a tick inside showing accuracy in the crypto tax reports CountDeFi provide.
DeFi Income vs Capital Events
DeFi transactions can generate both income and capital gains tax events, often within the same protocol interaction. Liquidity provision, lending, borrowing, staking, and token rewards may each have different tax outcomes. CountDeFi analyses every transaction individually, separating income events from disposals to produce accurate DeFi tax calculations that reflect the underlying economic activity.
AUD Valuation at Time of Transaction
The ATO requires crypto transactions to be valued in Australian Dollars at the time they occur. This applies to disposals, income events, NFT transactions, and DeFi activity. CountDeFi applies historical AUD pricing data to every transaction, ensuring your crypto tax calculations remain accurate, consistent, and compliant with ATO expectations.
// EXPERT SKILLS
Most Australian accountants aren't built for crypto. You pay the price.
Traditional accounting was never designed for wallets, blockchains, staking rewards, liquidity pools, or cross-chain transactions. Yet many Australian crypto investors still rely on accountants who lack the specialist knowledge needed to navigate complex digital asset activity. The problem is not tax. The problem is data. Missing transactions, incomplete wallet histories, and incorrectly classified DeFi activity can create significant errors in your tax position. Most investors never spot these issues until a report is generated, and by then the mistakes have already flowed through the calculations. The ATO expects accurate record keeping and support for every figure reported. CountDeFi is different. We reconstruct your transaction history across every wallet, exchange, protocol, and blockchain, tracing every movement until the complete picture emerges. Our team combines crypto tax specialists, blockchain analysts, data scientists, and legal experts who understand how digital asset taxation works in Australia. Whether you've traded on exchanges, earned staking rewards, participated in DeFi, or moved assets across chains, we build crypto tax reports designed to withstand ATO scrutiny.
Learn more about how CountDeFi deals with missing and incomplete transaction data.
// TAILORED PRECISION
Accounting software struggles when ATO crypto gets complicated
There is a place for crypto tax software. If your activity is limited to a few buy and sell transactions, a tax calculator can often get you most of the way there.The problem is that most crypto investors are not that simple. DeFi protocols, staking rewards, NFT transactions, bridge transfers, and multi-wallet portfolios create complexities that software often struggles to interpret correctly. Transactions can be misclassified, cost bases can become distorted, and important tax events can be overlooked entirely. The report may look accurate. The underlying calculations often are not. Australian crypto tax rules require careful treatment of capital gains events, assessable income, CGT discounts, and transaction valuations. These are areas where automated software regularly falls short. CountDeFi follows a rigorous 7-step process to reconstruct, reconcile, and verify your complete crypto transaction history, delivering calculations you can file with confidence.
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// WORK WITH US
How to work with CountDeFi to calculate your ATO crypto tax report
At CountDeFi, we use our proprietary Precision 7 System to take you from data chaos to crypto tax clarity. It starts with onboarding every data source you have, validating them, and hunting down every gap before we go anywhere near a calculation. From there we reconcile and categorise every transaction.
Where data is incomplete, we come back to you. Nothing is left unaccounted for. Australian tax optimisation is built into the process, not bolted on at the end. It starts with a free 15-minute consultation where we talk through your situation and arrive at the right pricing plan for your needs.
// FIVE STAR Global REVIEWS
Chris
Extremely professional process made it very simple and took countless hours of headache away. Definitely would recommend and will be using for my crypto taxes going forward
CA
Caleb
I recommend this service to anyone that has done very complex DeFi transactions and wants to remove the headache of dealing with thousands of transactions.
DE
Obie
Chris and the team were fantastic. Couldn't recommend CountDeFi highly enough! I had staking, NFTs, liquidity mining, etc. and they were really helpful, experienced and intelligent.
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