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2025 Year-End Tax Strategies for Crypto Investors - Harvest Your Losses

  • Writer: Viktoriya Barsukova, EA, MBA
    Viktoriya Barsukova, EA, MBA
  • Nov 11
  • 2 min read

Harvest Your Losses
Harvest Your Losses

Harvest Your Crypto Losses Before December 31- 2025 Year-End Tax Strategies for Crypto Investors


(Part 2 of the 2025 Year-End Tax Strategies for Crypto Investors series)


In our previous article, we began our series 2025 Year-End Tax Strategies for Crypto Investors by explaining that 2025 has been a great year for cryptocurrency holders, with Bitcoin reaching record highs—and that those high profits can also mean high taxes. We discussed the first strategy: stepping up your basis through tax-gain harvesting to lock in today’s lower rates.


Now let’s look at the next part of your year-end planning: how to harvest crypto losses before December 31 and use them to offset gains and even ordinary income.


Harvest Your Losses


With Bitcoin at all-time highs, you may not have any crypto losses. But you could have losses if you invested in other forms of crypto.


If so, you should think about selling your losers before the end of the year. Your losses are capital losses that you may fully deduct from any capital gains you realize during the year, such as gains from selling other crypto or stocks at a profit.


If you owned the crypto for less than one year, your losses are short-term capital losses.


Losses for crypto held for more than one year are long-term capital losses.


Here are the three steps to follow when identifying your tax losses:


  1. You must first use short-term capital losses to offset short-term capital gains.

  2. You must first use long-term capital losses to offset long-term capital gains.

  3. Once your losses in one category exceed your gains, you can apply the remaining losses to gains in the other category.


If your losses exceed your capital gains for the year, you can use your remaining losses to offset up to $3,000 in personal income this year1 and carry over any unused losses to future years to offset future gains or income.2


Stay tuned: additional articles in this series will continue exploring advanced year-end crypto tax planning opportunities.


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