Bitcoin Forks and Livestock Law? Tax Day 2018 Is a Different Animal U.S. income tax treatment of forks is unclear. A conservative approach would be to treat the receipt of new cryptocurrency as taxable ordinary income.… Read More
Five Steps to Stress-Free Crypto Tax Accounting The prudent individual or business must keep up with regulation and develop a process to organize data related to trading cryptocurrency. Here’s how.… Read More
How to Mount a Tax Defense for Unreported Crypto Income Most individuals with unreported cryptocurrency income have options available to mitigate and defend against civil penalties and criminal prosecution.… Read More
US Crypto Tax Policy Isn’t Just Crazy, It’s Cruel There is something extraordinarily cruel, crazy even, in the IRS’s approach of treating virtual currencies as property for tax purposes. … Read More
What the Taxman Can Learn from Crypto Cryptocurrency reminds us that tax and other rules need to be fluid, as inaction or inappropriate responses can halt or slow technological advances.… Read More
Don’t Forget the ‘Other’ Cryptocurrency Tax If cryptocurrency gains acceptance as a means of exchange, it’s sure to raise the ire of governments hungry for revenue from sales taxes.… Read More
How Active Crypto Traders Can Save on US Taxes Active crypto traders can qualify for trader tax status (TTS) to deduct business and home-office expenses. And there might be an additional benefit.… Read More
Do You Owe the IRS for Crypto-to-Crypto Trades? For cryptocurrency traders, the ability to use like-kind exchange rules to avoid U.S. tax on trades is a bit of a “good news/bad news” story.… Read More
The Maddening Task of Calculating Taxes on Crypto Calculating tax exposure is always a data-heavy business process. With regular assets, this process is simple. In cryptocurrency, it’s anything but.… Read More
Everything You Were Afraid to Ask About Crypto Taxes There’s a lot of information to process, but ignoring it can be hazardous. The IRS is going to come after investors who are not reporting their gains.… Read More