Preparing Your BTC Market Taxes

Introduction

As the first step in your crypto tax process, you will need to upload all your transactions to Crypto Tax Calculator. For BTC Markets there are two ways to do so, through an API upload or through a CSV history file upload. Either will work and allow Crypto Tax Calculator to calculate your crypto taxes and specifically your BTC Markets tax obligation.

Using an API

The easiest way to transfer data is to generate an API key and share the details with Crypto Tax Calculator.

1. Login to BTC Markets
2. Navigate to Account > API Key
3. Click the ‘Add new API key’ button
4. Add a name to the API key (optional)
5. Make sure READ ONLY is selected on all options
6. Click the ‘Submit’ button
7. Copy/make a note of the Private (Secret) API Key from the pop-up and click ‘Okay’
8. Click the ‘Copy Public API Key’ button or make a note of the Public API Key
9. Copy both the Public Key and the Secret Key and paste them into Crypto Tax Calculator

Using a CSV upload

The alternative to using an API is downloading your transaction data from BTC Markets and uploading the files to Crypto Tax Calculator.

For Trading Data:

1. Login to BTC Markets and Navigate to Buy/Sell > Trade History
2. Click on 'Export to CSV' (This should download as 'AccountTradingReport_XXX.csv')
3. Upload the CSV file here Crypto Tax Calculator

For Deposits & Withdrawals:

1. Login to BTC Markets and Navigate to Account > Transaction History
2. Make sure Currency is 'ALL' and click on 'Export to CSV' (This should download as 'TransactionReport_XXX.csv').
3. Upload the CSV file here to Crypto Tax Calculator

Wrapping Up

Once you have uploaded all your crypto data Crypto Tax Calculator can calculate your portfolio breakdown and crypto tax obligation. If for some reason you can’t upload your transactions you can add them individually on the review transactions page.