PrivateACB is a Windows program that works out your crypto capital gains and income, and produces the reports you need to prepare your return — for Canada, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.
Never uploaded. Never shared. Never on someone else's server.
30-day trial · No account · Windows 10 and 11 · One-time price, $39 USD
CSV files from your crypto exchanges
Cover missing prices and rates on the Market Data tab
Run the ACB Calculator across your full history
Verify balances, checks, and your decisions
View and export PDF and CSV reports
Each step opens on How it works.
Most crypto tax tools are websites: you upload every transaction you have ever made, and it stays on their servers. PrivateACB is a program. Your files, your database, the calculations and the reports all live on your computer. There is no account, because there is nothing of yours for me to hold. The app goes online only for the things you ask it to: fetching prices and exchange rates, and activating a licence.
I built a demonstration portfolio for each country — fictitious, but shaped like real exchange exports. Every report PrivateACB produces from them is on this site: open them here, or download the files, run them through the trial yourself, and match the figures to the cent.
Adjusted cost base, with the superficial-loss rule. Schedule 3 and the T1135. The CRA has never ruled on how self-custody is treated for the T1135, so the app asks you to declare where each account is held rather than deciding for you.
Lot tracking by FIFO, LIFO or HIFO, account-by-account from 2025. Form 8949 and Schedule D. The wash-sale rule does not currently apply to crypto; the setting exists so you can see what it would change.
The 50% CGT discount for a parcel held more than 12 months. CGT Summary and Worksheet, on the July-to-June year.
Same-day and 30-day matching, then the Section 104 pool. SA108 Summary, on the April-to-April year.
Exports from [exchange names — generated from the registry at release] are recognised from their headers. Any other CSV can be read column by column in the import window, where you see the whole file, and how each row will be treated, before anything is saved.
I'm Robert Vassov. [RJV: one or two sentences — why you built it]
I write the code, I test it against [RJV: "my own records and" — include or not] the four demonstration portfolios, and I answer the support address myself. There is no investor to satisfy and no advertising business; the only thing I sell is the program.
$39 USD — one country (Canada, United States, Australia or United Kingdom). $69 USD — all four, switch whenever you like.
One-time. A licence buys every update within the current major version. The 30-day trial needs no account and shows you everything; exporting reports needs a licence. If you buy and it isn't right, there is a 30-day money-back guarantee.
| Countries | Canada · United States · Australia · United Kingdom | jurisdiction registry, at release |
| Cost-basis methods | generated at release | registry, at release |
| Loss rules | generated at release | registry, at release |
| Reports | generated at release | report registry, at release |
| Automated tests | generated at release | cargo test, at release |