Danny Talwar

Danny Talwar is a digital asset tax and reporting specialist known for translating crypto activity into tax-ready data and compliance workflows. He currently serves as Digital Assets Lead within S&P Global’s Tax Solutions business, where his focus is on information reporting and due diligence requirements affecting crypto intermediaries and financial institutions. Talwar previously led tax strategy and education at Koinly, a cryptocurrency tax reporting platform used by individuals and accountants.

Overview

Talwar’s career spans international tax advisory, crypto tax product development, and regulatory-facing reporting frameworks. He is often associated with practical implementation questions, how to source complete transaction histories, establish cost basis, classify complex on-chain activity, and produce standardized reporting outputs that meet emerging global rules for digital assets.

• Current: Digital Assets Lead, S&P Global Tax Solutions
• Known for: Crypto tax interpretation, reporting design, and compliance education
• Previous: Head of Tax at Koinly
• Background: International tax consulting, including roles at Deloitte and BDO

History and Background

Talwar has been described as a chartered accountant and chartered tax adviser with experience across multiple regions, including Europe and Asia-Pacific. His earlier work in international tax consulting included transfer pricing and advisory responsibilities, a foundation that is relevant to crypto because digital asset activity frequently crosses jurisdictions and involves complex entity, custody, and service-provider arrangements.

His education has been publicly listed as including an economics degree from Cardiff University and participation in the Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme at Saïd Business School. This mix of tax training and blockchain-focused study aligns with the operational reality of digital asset reporting, where legal characterization and technical transaction mapping often collide.

Digital Assets Lead at S&P Global Tax Solutions

At S&P Global, Talwar’s work is tied to the institutionalization of digital asset tax information reporting. Tax Solutions products are positioned to help organizations handle end-to-end reporting obligations, including tax due diligence, transactional data gathering, cost basis tracking, and downstream reporting outputs. In this role, Talwar is associated with strategy and product direction for digital asset compliance capabilities that support large-scale onboarding and reporting processes.

The compliance scope for institutional crypto reporting increasingly resembles established frameworks in traditional finance, with a focus on verifying user status, classifying accounts and entities, collecting transactional details, and generating standardized outputs for tax authorities. Talwar’s remit has been described as supporting financial institutions as they prepare for regimes such as the OECD Crypto Asset Reporting Framework (CARF), updates sometimes grouped under “CRS 2.0,” the EU’s DAC8, and U.S. broker reporting requirements such as Form 1099-DA.

Former Head of Tax at Koinly

Before joining S&P Global, Talwar served as Head of Tax at Koinly, where he helped shape consumer-facing guidance and product logic used to generate tax reports for individuals and accountants. Crypto tax platforms like Koinly typically ingest data from exchanges, wallets, and on-chain addresses, then attempt to reconcile transfers, compute gains and income, and surface exceptions that require user review.

In that environment, Talwar’s work aligned with common user challenges, incomplete histories, missing cost basis, duplicated transfers, mislabeled bridge activity, and the classification of staking rewards, airdrops, and DeFi transactions. These topics frequently require policy interpretation as well as data engineering, because tax outcomes depend heavily on how transactions are categorized and valued.

Core Focus Areas

Across consumer and institutional contexts, Talwar’s work tends to cluster around repeatable themes in digital asset tax compliance.

• Transaction classification: Distinguishing disposals, transfers, income events, and fees across wallets, exchanges, and on-chain protocols.
• Cost basis and reconciliation: Building defensible acquisition histories and resolving gaps created by off-platform activity, bridges, or unsupported data sources.
• Information reporting readiness: Converting raw transactional activity into reportable formats aligned with emerging cross-border standards.
• Operational controls: Designing review and exception-handling workflows that reduce errors and improve auditability.

Relevance to the Crypto Industry

As digital assets migrate further into regulated distribution and custody, tax reporting has become a systems problem as much as a legal one. Exchanges, brokers, custodians, and payment firms increasingly need repeatable pipelines that can generate consistent reporting across jurisdictions. Talwar’s work is relevant to this shift because it emphasizes the mechanics of compliance, how firms gather data, validate counterparties, reconcile holdings, and produce outputs that can withstand scrutiny.

CryptoSlate has published tax-focused explainers that cover many of the concepts Talwar is known for addressing, particularly around user obligations and common reporting pitfalls.

• The Investor’s Guide to Cryptocurrency Taxes
• Filing Your Crypto Taxes 101
• The Cryptocurrency Miner’s Guide to Taxes
• Tax implications of the Ethereum Merge and what to do to prepare
• Op-ed: Even free crypto is taxable, what to look out for this tax season

Risks and Considerations

Digital asset tax and reporting remains a fast-moving domain. Rules can vary widely by jurisdiction and may evolve faster than product logic or standardized data formats. Automated reporting is also only as reliable as the underlying dataset, meaning incomplete exchange exports, missing wallet history, or inaccurate labeling can distort results. For institutions, additional risks include inconsistent counterparty data, vendor dependency for attribution, and uncertainty in how edge-case activity should be reported under new regimes.

In this setting, Talwar’s work is best viewed as part of a broader industry effort to convert crypto’s fragmented transaction landscape into operationally reliable reporting systems that can scale as regulatory reporting requirements expand.

• S&P Global Digital Assets Lead - S&P Global Tax Solutions