Bitcoin Tax Reporting in Austria 2026: What Applies

Bitcoin tax reporting in Austria: what investors can request from crypto exchanges in 2026

Austrian crypto investors can fall back on a new instrument for the first time in 2026, one meant to make the tax return and the offsetting of losses considerably easier. For income accruing from the 2025 calendar year onwards, certain parties obliged to withhold capital gains tax must produce a standardised tax report on request. Alongside banks, that expressly includes providers of crypto-asset services.

For investors, the effect is straightforward. Anyone who holds or sells Bitcoin through an Austrian crypto service provider can have a structured overview of the previous calendar year’s tax-relevant transactions issued to them.

What the Austrian Bitcoin tax report contains

The tax report is intended to cover the data relevant to the individual investor on the transactions and on the capital assets managed by the provider over one calendar year. Its precise structure is prescribed by the Austrian tax reporting regulation.

For cryptocurrencies, it may contain information on tax-relevant income and losses in particular. The official template distinguishes, among other things, between crypto income that can be taken into account in the automatic offsetting of losses and income that was left out of it.