Sofia Reyes

Biography

Sofia Reyes is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in California and a Certified Cryptocurrency Forensic Investigator (CCFI) accredited by the McAfee Institute. She has spent the past six years working exclusively on digital-asset taxation, beginning with a boutique crypto-tax firm in Los Angeles where she prepared returns for early Ethereum stakers, DeFi yield farmers, and NFT creators. She is intimately familiar with IRS Notice 2014-21, Rev. Rul. 2019-24, the 2026 Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF), and the operational realities of FIFO, LIFO, HIFO, and specific-identification cost-basis accounting in volatile markets. At FinanceForge she leads all cryptocurrency content and personally maintains the rate matrix used by the Crypto Tax Matrix calculator across all six covered jurisdictions.

• Cryptocurrency capital gains taxation (US, UK, DE, CA, AU)
• Cost-basis methods: FIFO, HIFO, specific identification
• DeFi staking, lending & liquidity-pool tax treatment
• NFT taxation & creator-royalty compliance
• CARF 2026 reporting framework

CPA, California Board of Accountancy · CCFI, McAfee Institute · B.S. Accounting, USC Marshall