{"id":12556,"date":"2026-08-29T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12556"},"modified":"2026-08-29T20:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T20:00:13","slug":"uk-crypto-gains-hit-1-38-billion-but-just-240-people-made-half-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12556","title":{"rendered":"UK crypto gains hit \u00a31.38 billion, but just 240 people made half of it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-single-article-content=\"\">\n<p>HMRC has disclosed \u00a31.38 billion in reported UK crypto gains, with just 240 investors accounting for more than half.<\/p>\n<p>The figures mark the first time HM Revenue &amp; Customs has published crypto-specific Capital Gains Tax data, giving the agency a formal baseline before new reporting rules begin supplying it with information directly from crypto providers.<\/p>\n<p>For the 2024 to 2025 tax year, 17,600 individuals reported \u00a313.8 billion of cryptoasset disposal proceeds and \u00a31.38 billion of gains. Of that total, 240 people who each reported more than \u00a31 million in gains accounted for \u00a3717 million.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-558878\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/exec-327b211d-c207-4bbf-902f-304997a14412.png\" alt=\"Infographic showing HMRC's 2024 to 2025 crypto disposal and gains statistics, the 2026 CARF collection start, and 2027 reporting milestones.\" width=\"720\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/exec-327b211d-c207-4bbf-902f-304997a14412.png 1024w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/exec-327b211d-c207-4bbf-902f-304997a14412-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/exec-327b211d-c207-4bbf-902f-304997a14412-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/exec-327b211d-c207-4bbf-902f-304997a14412-768x1152.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The data comes from a dedicated crypto section added to Self Assessment returns. It therefore captures declared Capital Gains Tax-liable disposals rather than every crypto transaction in Britain and cannot show how much activity went unreported.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"cs-inline-newsletter-1\" class=\"cs-inline-newsletter\" data-inline-newsletter=\"\" data-newsletter-placement=\"article-midpoint\" data-newsletter-pending-label=\"Joining\u2026\" data-newsletter-pending-status=\"Joining the Daily Brief\u2026\" data-newsletter-email-required-message=\"Before sending, please provide your email address.\" aria-labelledby=\"cs-inline-newsletter-1-title\" aria-describedby=\"cs-inline-newsletter-1-copy\">\n<div class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__inner\">\n<div class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__content\"> <span class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__eyebrow\"> <i class=\"fa-regular fa-envelope\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/> The Daily Brief <\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"cs-inline-newsletter-1-title\" class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__title\">The signal, before the noise.<\/h2>\n<p id=\"cs-inline-newsletter-1-copy\" class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__copy\">Start your day with the crypto stories moving markets, decoded by CryptoSlate\u2019s editors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__form-shell\">\n<p class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__form-heading\">One email. Everything that matters.<\/p>\n<p id=\"cs-inline-newsletter-1-privacy\" class=\"cs-inline-newsletter__privacy\">Free to join. Unsubscribe any time.<\/p>\n<p> <i class=\"fa-regular fa-circle-xmark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/> <span>Whoops, looks like there was a problem. Please try again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <i class=\"fa-regular fa-circle-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/> <span><strong>You\u2019re on the list.<\/strong> Your next Daily Brief is on its way.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<h2>HMRC is building a second data trail<\/h2>\n<p>That limitation is set to narrow as the UK implements the OECD\u2019s Cryptoasset Reporting Framework.<\/p>\n<p>Crypto businesses covered by CARF began collecting customer and transaction information in January 2026, while HMRC expects to start receiving provider reports in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The change will give the tax authority a separate dataset alongside taxpayers\u2019 own declarations, increasing its ability to identify discrepancies between reported gains and activity recorded by crypto platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The reporting timetable does not delay existing tax obligations. Crypto owners with reportable gains or income for the 2025 to 2026 tax year must still file their Self Assessment return and pay tax due by Jan. 31, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>HMRC separately estimated that its crypto compliance and education work generated \u00a3168 million of additional Capital Gains Tax during 2024 to 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The capital-gains figures also exclude some other crypto-related tax liabilities, including income from employment, mining, staking and lending, which can fall under Income Tax rules instead.<\/p>\n<p>The new statistics therefore provide HMRC with a declared baseline before standardized third-party reporting begins. From 2027, the agency will increasingly be able to compare what crypto investors say they earned with what platforms say they did.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Featured,Taxes,miningmining#crypto #gains #hit #billion #people1788033613<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HMRC has disclosed \u00a31.38 billion in reported UK crypto gains, with just 240 investors accounting for more than half. The figures mark the first time HM Revenue &amp; Customs has published crypto-specific Capital Gains Tax data, giving the agency a formal baseline before new reporting rules begin supplying it with information directly from crypto providers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[277,62,668,114,447,1556],"class_list":["post-12556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ethereum","tag-billion","tag-crypto","tag-gains","tag-hit","tag-mining","tag-people"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UK crypto gains hit \u00a31.38 billion, but just 240 people made half of it - Crypto News: Latest Cryptocurrency News and Analysis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"HMRC recorded \u00a31.38 billion of gains before exchanges begin supplying standardized customer and transaction data.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12556\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UK crypto gains hit \u00a31.38 billion, but just 240 people made half of it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"HMRC recorded \u00a31.38 billion of gains before exchanges begin supplying standardized customer and transaction data.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12556\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Crypto News: Latest Cryptocurrency News and Analysis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-08-29T20:00:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/exec-327b211d-c207-4bbf-902f-304997a14412.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1536\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"\u884c\u653f\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\u884c\u653f\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12556\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12556\",\"name\":\"UK crypto gains hit \u00a31.38 billion, but just 240 people made half of it - Crypto News: Latest Cryptocurrency News and Analysis\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12556#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12556#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/exec-327b211d-c207-4bbf-902f-304997a14412.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-29T20:00:13+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/#\/schema\/person\/822778c5844e0d16d43dce6630f4f1bf\"},\"description\":\"HMRC recorded \u00a31.38 billion of gains before exchanges begin supplying standardized customer and transaction data.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12556#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12556\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12556#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/exec-327b211d-c207-4bbf-902f-304997a14412.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/exec-327b211d-c207-4bbf-902f-304997a14412.png\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":1536},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12556#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"UK crypto gains hit \u00a31.38 billion, but just 240 people made half of it\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/\",\"name\":\"Crypto News: Latest Cryptocurrency News and Analysis\",\"description\":\"Latest Crypto &amp; 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