How to Get Your Kraken Tax Documents
Kraken tax documents: where to find your forms and full transaction history, what Kraken reports on Form 1099-DA, and how to file accurately.
To get your Kraken tax documents, sign in and open the tax/documents area to download any forms Kraken issued for the year, then export your full transaction history as a CSV. The forms alone rarely add up to a finished return — especially if you've moved crypto on or off the platform.
Where to find your Kraken tax documents
Kraken keeps your tax information inside your account. Log in on the web (the desktop site is easier than the app for exports) and look for two things:
- Tax forms / statements — depending on your activity and account type, Kraken may provide a gains and losses summary and any IRS forms it issued for the year. US customers may see a Form 1099-DA for the 2025 tax year onward, and rewards income can appear on a 1099-MISC.
- Ledger / transaction history export — from your account history you can download a CSV of every trade, deposit, withdrawal, staking reward, and fee. This is the single most useful file for accurate tax software, because it captures activity no summary form fully reflects.
If you traded on Kraken Pro (now Kraken's advanced trading interface), make sure your export covers that activity too — trades, ledger entries, and any margin or futures positions each generate their own records.
What Kraken reports — and what it doesn't
Starting with the 2025 tax year, US exchanges including Kraken report gross proceeds to the IRS on the new Form 1099-DA. That's a meaningful change, but it has real limits you need to plan around:
- It covers activity on Kraken only — not crypto you sent to a self-custody wallet, moved to another exchange, or used in DeFi.
- Cost basis for assets you transferred in may be missing or incomplete. Without the original purchase price, a simple deposit followed by a sale can look like a massive gain.
- Staking rewards, referral bonuses, and airdrops are usually ordinary income at their fair market value when received, then have their own cost basis when you later sell — two taxable events that are easy to miscategorize.
In short, the 1099 is a starting point, not the answer. Your actual gain or loss depends on cost basis, which frequently lives on a different platform. See how crypto is taxed for why that number drives everything.
A cost-basis change that matters for 2025 and beyond
For the 2025 tax year forward, the IRS requires crypto cost basis to be tracked on a per-wallet (per-account) basis rather than pooled across all your holdings. Practically, that means each exchange and wallet is its own bucket, and a coin's basis follows it when it moves. If your Kraken 1099-DA shows proceeds but not the basis for coins you transferred in, you're responsible for supplying the correct figure — and getting it wrong in either direction costs you money or invites an IRS notice.
How Kraken activity maps to your tax forms
| Kraken activity | Tax treatment | Where it lands |
|---|---|---|
| Selling or swapping crypto | Capital gain or loss | Form 8949 & Schedule D |
| Staking rewards received | Ordinary income at fair market value | Schedule 1 (then 8949 when sold) |
| Referral or bonus crypto | Ordinary income | Schedule 1 |
| Buying crypto with USD | Not taxable (sets your basis) | Recorded for later |
| Transferring crypto out | Not a sale (basis moves with it) | Tracked, not reported |
Staking on Kraken deserves special attention, since rewards are taxed twice over their life — once as income and again as a gain or loss on disposal. Our guide to crypto staking taxes walks through both events.
The reliable way to file: import your full history
The cleanest approach is to bring your complete Kraken history into tax software that also sees your other wallets and exchanges, so cost basis carries across platforms. You can do this two ways:
- Connect Kraken directly with a read-only API key (Kraken lets you create keys with query-only permissions), or
- Upload the CSV export from your ledger and trade history.
Either way, the goal is one unified ledger where every trade, transfer, staking reward, and bonus is identified and priced — so your Form 8949 and Schedule D reflect all of your activity, not just what happened on Kraken. For more, browse our exchange guides and tax strategy hubs.
Let Glide do the math
Connect Kraken with a read-only key or drop in your CSV. Glide identifies every transaction — including staking rewards — prices it to the exact block, carries cost basis across all your wallets and exchanges, and generates your tax forms.
Calculate my crypto taxes →This article is general information, not tax advice. Consult a qualified professional about your specific situation.