Records
Your wallet has a history.
Good records turn activity into something understandable — for you, for your accountant, and for any conversation about your position.
Date
Asset
Activity
- TBCBTCBTC → GBP
- TBCETHETH → SOL
- TBCStakingStaking reward
- TBCAirdropAirdrop received
- TBCDEXDEX swap
- TBCTransferTransfer
- TBCNFTNFT disposal
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Anatomy
Six fields that carry most of the weight.
- Date
- When the activity happened, in a consistent time zone.
- Asset
- Which token or asset moved, including the network where it matters.
- Activity
- Buy, sell, swap, transfer, reward, receipt — described the same way every time.
- Quantity
- How much moved, at full precision.
- GBP value
- A sterling value at the time of the activity, with the source of the rate.
- Source
- Which exchange, wallet or protocol the record came from.
Habits
Small habits, far less reconstruction.
None of this is advice about your tax position. It is about keeping information that would otherwise be difficult to recover.
01
Export from each platform regularly rather than at year end.
02
Label your own wallets so internal transfers are not counted twice.
03
Keep the raw export as well as any processed spreadsheet.
04
Note the reason for unusual movements while you still remember it.
05
Record rewards and receipts at the moment they arrive.
06
Keep evidence of fees separately from the main record.
Information, not tax advice
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