Zac McClure, MBA

Experience

Zac McClure, MBA, is an experienced financial accountant, specializing in cryptocurrency tax, international tax filing, corporate financial statements, as well as financial and legal consulting.

He is the author of Cryptocurrency Taxes in the U.S.: The TokenTax guide to all things crypto taxes, as well as numerous articles and webinars on the topic of crypto taxes. He was previously the Director of Strategy at Elsevier. Along with his career as an international financial accountant at JPMorgan, Imprint Capital and Bain, he has worked in more than a half-dozen countries helping different organizations with their financial statements.

His interest in cryptocurrency began while working on social impact investing with a Ripple investment opportunity in 2013. While doing his own crypto taxes, he discovered there were limited crypto tax software and accounting options for individuals and funds. Zac co-founded TokenTax to bridge the gap between the old and new worlds of finance.

Zac received his MBA with high honors from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School as a Palmer Scholar. He received his undergraduate degrees in accounting and international business at the University of Southern California, graduating summa cum laude.

Media

Publications

• "Why NFT Tax-Loss Harvesting Remains a Challenge for Investors," Coindesk, 2022

• Cryptocurrency Taxes in the U.S.: The TokenTax Guide to All Things Crypto Taxes, 2020

• "Tax Guidance for Special Cryptocurrency Topics: Trading Bots, Algorithmic Trading, Margin Trading, Synthetic trades, and Decentralized Finance," Bloomberg Tax, 61 TMM 10, 2020

• “IPOs Can Spring Tax Traps on Employees,” Accounting Today, 2020

• "IRS Requires Disclosure of Cryptocurrency Transactions on Taxes," CPA Directory, 2020

• "Why the IRS Should Treat Crypto as a New Asset Class," Coindesk, 2018

Commentary

• "NFTs are Proof That Tax Season Can Always Get Worse," by Kelli María Korducki, The Atlantic, 2022.

• "Trading Crypto? Here’s What You Need to Know at Tax Time," by Karen Hube, Barron's, 2022.

• "NFT Investors Owe Billions in Taxes and IRS Sets Sights on Evaders" by Allyson Versprille, Bloomberg Wealth, January 2022

Interviews

• "Solving the tax and cryptocurrency conundrum with Zac McClure and Arthur Teller from TokenTax," Karbon Magazine, December 2022

• "Episode 7: TokenTax," Frog Radio, December 2022

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