Guides
Most of what is written about skin trading and tax is either wrong or five years out of date. These are the questions traders actually ask, answered with figures you can check.
Do you pay taxes on CS2 skins?
When selling a CS2 skin becomes a taxable event in the US, UK and EU, what counts as a disposal, and which records you need to keep.
Why tracking CS2 skins for tax is so hard, and where spreadsheets break
The same skin bought five times, two copies with different stickers, a purchase in yuan sold in dollars: what makes reconciling skin trades across marketplaces genuinely difficult, and what a correct record has to contain.
Does Steam report your skin sales to the IRS? Form 1099-K and the 200-sale myth
Steam stopped collecting tax information and issuing 1099 forms in 2020. What that does and does not mean for you, what the 1099-K threshold is for 2026, and who can still report your sales.
FIFO cost basis for skin traders, with a worked example
How first-in-first-out matching works when you have bought the same skin repeatedly at different prices, worked through trade by trade.
These guides explain how the rules are generally applied; they are not tax advice, and thresholds change between filing seasons. Check anything that affects a return against current guidance from your tax authority, or ask an accountant.