TaxNode calculates your capital gains, staking income, and airdrop tax in plain English ; for free. No CoinLedger subscription required for a simple estimate.
Correctly separates short-term (held under 1 year) from long-term gains. Different rates, and it matters a lot.
Staking income is taxed as ordinary income at fair market value when received. TaxNode handles this correctly.
Airdrops are taxable income. Log them with their FMV at receipt and TaxNode adds them to your ordinary income total.
Pick your income bracket. TaxNode applies the right federal tax rates to each type of crypto income ; not a flat guess.
Download your trade log and estimates as a spreadsheet. Hand it to your CPA or import into filing software.
Nothing leaves your browser. No account, no server, no wallet connection required. Your data stays yours.
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A free crypto tax estimator built for the person who doesn't want to pay $99 just to find out if they owe $80.
Every year, millions of people make a few hundred or few thousand dollars on crypto ; selling a bit of Bitcoin, getting some staking rewards, receiving an airdrop ; and have no idea what they owe. The professional tax software tools are excellent but expensive, and overkill if you have a handful of transactions.
TaxNode fills that gap. It's a free, private, browser-based tool that does the core math: capital gains (short and long term), staking income, and airdrop income, applied to your federal tax bracket. It's not a substitute for professional tax advice on complex situations, but for the person with five to fifty transactions who wants a ballpark number, it's exactly what they need.
You enter your transactions manually ; what you bought, when, what you paid, when you sold, what you got. TaxNode categorizes each as short-term or long-term capital gain, staking income, or airdrop income, applies the correct federal tax treatment to each, and shows you a total estimated tax. Everything runs in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server. No account, no email, no data collection.
TaxNode is an estimation tool, not a tax filing platform. It covers federal income tax only ; not state taxes, not NIIT, not AMT. It does not connect to exchanges and does not import transaction history automatically. For complex portfolios with hundreds of trades, use a platform like CoinLedger or Koinly that can import your full history and generate Form 8949 and Schedule D.
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TaxNode · Last updated May 2026
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Effective date: January 1, 2026
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Last updated: May 1, 2026