How to do your Ledger taxes in 2024
If you're looking for a straightforward way to calculate and report your Ledger taxes, you've come to the right place!
Blockpit is a trusted cryptocurrency tax calculator used by hundreds of thousands of crypto investors worldwide to accurately track and optimize Ledger transactions, and calculate gains, losses and income for tax purposes.
Simply sign up for free, import your transaction data and generate your fully compliant crypto tax report for Ledger and more than 250,000 other crypto assets, exchanges and wallets in minutes!
Read on to learn everything you need to know about Ledger and cryptocurrency taxation!
🤝 Ledger is an official Blockpit partner.
#1 Ledger Tax Calculator
🏆 Full Ledger support
📈 Smart tax optimization and offsetting of losses
🏛️ Supports country-specific tax regulations
Do I have to pay taxes when using Ledger?
Yes, Ledger transactions are considered taxabale events under capital gains tax or income tax in many countries. The tax rates differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and some may even offer tax exemptions based on profit thresholds or holding periods.
Read our crypto tax guides for more information.
Does Ledger automatically deduct taxes?
No, as of 2024, Ledger does not automatically deduct taxes from crypto trades.
Calculating crypto taxes can be challenging for crypto exchanges, as they do not have any knowledge of your off-exchange transactions on other platforms or wallets and are therefore missing crucial information required to calculate gains, losses and income.
However, Ledger might still report your crypto transactions to your country's tax authority, like the IRS or HMRC.
We highly recommend tracking and reporting all relevant crypto transactions on and off the exchange to prevent audits and fines.
Import Ledger transactions into Blockpit
Blockpit offers advanced integrations to process Ledger transaction data. Our guide explains how to add the Ledger integration for portfolio tracking and tax calculation.
Step 1: Log in to your Blockpit account
Log into your Blockpit account here: Login. If you don’t have an account yet, please sign up first: Create Blockpit Account.
Step 2: Select "+ Integration"
After logging in, click on “+ Integration" in the top navigation.
Step 3: Select "Ledger"
Select Ledger from the integration creation dialog
Step 4: Follow the on-screen instructions
You can find a detailed Ledger setup guide here: How to import Ledger transactions
Step 5: Wait for the data import to finish
The data import can take several minutes, depending on the number of transactions. Have a look at the import scope description of our Ledger integration in the meantime!
Import Ledger transactions into Blockpit
Blockpit offers advanced integrations to process Ledger transaction data. Our guide explains how to add the Ledger integration for portfolio tracking and tax calculation.
Step 1: Log in to your Blockpit account
Log into your Blockpit account here: Login. If you don’t have an account yet, please sign up first: Create Blockpit Account.
Step 2: Select "+ Integration"
After logging in, click on “+ Integration" in the top navigation.
Step 3: Select the corresponding blockchain
In the appearing integration creation dialog, select the corresponding blockchain from the list.
Step 4: Follow the on-screen instructions
You can find a detailed Ledger setup guide here: How to import Ledger transactions
Step 5: Wait for the data import to finish
The data import can take several minutes, depending on the number of transactions. Have a look at the import scope description of our Ledger integration in the meantime!
Which Ledger transactions are automatically imported into Blockpit?
Blockpit auto-labels Ledger transaction data based on country-specific gain, loss, and income tax categories, then processes them in alignment with your national tax regulations. As a result, Blockpit can distinguish automatically among these asset classes and Ledger transactions:
Assets
✅ Fiat (EUR, USD, CHF, etc.)
✅ Crypto (Coins & Token)
✅ NFTs (NFT Collections)
✅ Commodities (Gold, Silver, etc.)
✅ Derivatives (Tokenized Stocks, Tokenized Commodities, etc.)
Transactions
✅ All native transactions
✅ Swaps (Trades)
✅ NFTs (Mints, Claims, Trades, Transfers)
✅ Liquidity Providing/Mining
✅ Staking, Airdrop & Bounty Rewards
✅ All transactions provided by Ledger
Review Ledger transaction data in Blockpit
Blockpit seamlessly merges and organizes your Ledger transaction data. Once all data is imported, the following features ensure clarity and assist in verifying data accuracy:
- Identifying unmerged transfers
- Flagging unlabeled transactions
- Highlighting mismatched balances
- Pinpointing potential issues
- Filtering of assets and transactions
- Access to help center guides
For an in-depth overview of Blockpit's review capabilities, refer to: Troubleshooting
What does the Ledger tax report look like?
Blockpit's popular crypto tax calculator creates the most comprehensive tax reports for Ledger and more than 250,000 other crypto assets, exchanges, wallets and blockchains.
Additionally, Blockpit generates pre-filled tax forms for many countries for easy integration into your yearly tax return. Our tax reports also contain clear explanations in terms of legal interpretation for submission to tax authorities. So far, every tax report has been accepted by the tax offices without a complaint.
The tax report provides information about all of your crypto balances, realized profits and losses, and can be used as proof of origin with banks or tax advisors. It contains all relevant transactions of your account, always refers to the selected tax year and shows details such as time stamp, amount, asset, costs and fees of the individual transactions.
You can view some of our country specific crypto tax reports here: Blockpit Sample Tax Reports
Optimize & reduce Ledger taxes with Blockpit
Depending on your tax residency, it is possible to realize profits and losses in order to optimize your taxes (offsetting of losses against gains & tax loss harvesting). Blockpit’s Tax Optimization Feature allows you to identify unrealized gains and losses as well as the holding period of your Ledger assets.