Turbo Tax Premier Desktop 2023: unable to upload CSV file for crypto

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February 1, 2024
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I have Turbo Tax Premier Desktop 2023 running on Windows 10. It looks like this year they added support for importing your cryptocurrency transactions from a CSV file. I followed the directions and when I import my CSV file TT gives me an error that simply says the CSV upload was unsuccessful -- no other information is given about what is wrong with the CSV file (would be nice for it to tell me and give me some hints on what is wrong with the CSV file).

I created a simple gain/loss CSV file with 1 crypto sale in it to try it out and I can't get it to work (it has all the proper column headers as specified by TT). I also downloaded the TT provided CSV template file (transaction CSV), modified it to have 1 simple transaction and tried to upload that and it also failed in the exact same way. Some say the transaction CSV is not supported but I tried it anyways just in case.

I used the following link for help on how to upload crypto CSVs -- it clearly specifies it is supported by the TT desktop version, so I should not need to use the online TT version for this:

https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/cryptocurrency/upload-csv-file-crypto-transactions/L4EaIsWGG_US_en_US?uid=ls2v1dhu

PS: I can get this to work by using a TXF file like I did last year but if TT does support importing CSV files for crypto I would rather use that instead.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Crypto

JamesG1

Have you considered uploading your crypto information in the TurboTax Investor Center?

The Investor Center can then be used to create a CSV that will upload into TurboTax Desktop Premier.

At this webpage, click on Learn more to the right of TurboTax Investor Center. At the next page, click Get Started.

I have had some luck with the product. Let me know how it goes.

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maiden1134666Author

This does not work for me. TT does not support the different wallets/exchanges I use for crypto.

However, I got the CSV to work by trying a bunch of different things. The CSV format I got to work is as follows, this is a sample .csv text file you can use to import your crypto sell transactions (of course you just have to convert all of your transactions into this format). You can use a regular text file or a .csv file from excel.

Currency Name,Purchase Date,Cost Basis,Date Sold,Proceeds
123 DOGE,2023-01-04,$3000.05,2023-02-03,$2000.35

Notes:

- date format must be: YYYY-MM-DD

- $ is optional

- if amount of crypto in currency name is less than 1, you must prefix it with "0."

TT should update their documentation to properly specify formats like this.