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This periodic bulletin is designed to help companies identify important legal developments governing the use and acceptance of blockchain technology, smart contracts, and digital assets. While the use cases for blockchain...more
On September 12, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that Frank Richard Ahlgren III pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return underreporting gains from selling $3.7 million in Bitcoin. As we discussed...more
The IRS appears to be on the verge of changing the way digital asset (i.e., cryptocurrency) transactions are reported for federal tax purposes. On April 19, 2024, the IRS issued its first draft of Form 1099-DA, the intended...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) recently announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that identifies international convertible virtual currency mixing as a class of...more
The Treasury Department has recently issued a notice of proposed rulemaking under the Bank Secrecy Act regarding the reporting of convertible virtual currency (“CVC”) mixing....more
As digital currency grows in use and acceptability, digital currency has entered into many traditional investment markets. Commercial real estate is no exception. The conversion of real estate assets to digital tokens using...more
On April 21, 2023, the IRS released Chief Counsel Advice Memorandum 202316008 (the “CCA”), which provides that cryptocurrency protocol changes are not treated as realization events and do not give rise to gross income for...more
IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, testifying before Congress in April 2021, estimated the gap between taxes owed and taxes collected in the United States to be close to $1 trillion....more
En una nueva Guía de Cumplimiento de Sanciones, la Oficina de Control de Activos Extranjeros (“OFAC”) del Tesoro de los EE. UU. reitera que las obligaciones de cumplimiento se aplican por igual a las transacciones que...more
On February 3, the Proof of Stake Alliance (“POSA”), a cryptocurrency industry association, issued a press release regarding recent developments in a cryptocurrency tax case, in which the IRS approved the tax refund sought by...more
On 17 February 2022, the Ministry of Economy and Finance Decree (the MEF Decree) entered into force and lays out the procedure which entities acting as virtual asset service providers (VASPs) and e-wallet service providers...more
As cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin rise in popularity, government regulators repeatedly try, and often fail, to control its use as a tax shelter. Agencies such as the IRS struggle with determining the best way to tax...more
If you’ve engaged in cryptocurrency or other virtual currency transactions worth $20,000 in any one year between 2016 and 2020, the IRS wants to hear from you. The IRS believes thousands of taxpayers are not telling the...more
The IRS continues its campaign against cryptocurrency investors and traders who evade income taxes on currency gains. As we wrote in 2016, the IRS was successful in compelling Coinbase, a large digital currency exchange, to...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has scored another significant victory in its rapidly increasing virtual currency tax enforcement efforts. On May 5, 2021, the US District Court for the Northern District of California...more
On April 9, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Chief Counsel Advice memo 202114020 (Hard Fork CCA), which details the potential tax consequences for taxpayers who held Bitcoin prior to the August 1, 2017,...more
FinCEN recently took another important step toward bringing virtual currency into the financial assets reporting scheme....more
Cryptocurrency is more accessible than ever before. Banks are continuing to both implement procedures for and, in some cases, develop their own cryptocurrencies. Paypal allows users in the U.S. to buy, sell and hold select...more
With the emergence of digital assets, the question has arisen whether digital assets held in “wallets” in foreign exchanges need to be reported on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 8938, Statement of Specified Foreign...more
ABA Tax Fraud Panel to Discuss IRS CI and Crypto Criminals - The Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation (IRS CI) has made it clear that it is focusing on the abuse of digital currencies to further tax evasion,...more
Virtual currency transactions are now a prime focus of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scrutiny. The IRS has numerous information-gathering tools to enforce its taxing power, including summons, artificial intelligence, data...more
On Oct. 9, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (the “Service”) issued Revenue Ruling 2019-24 concerning the tax consequences of virtual currency hard forks, as well as FAQs on the taxation of virtual currency generally. This...more
During the month of October 2019, IRS issued Revenue Ruling 2019-24, FAQ’s on Virtual Currency Transactions and a DRAFT Form of Schedule 1, which, for the first time presents the question: “At any time during 2019, did you...more
Five years or so years ago, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) provided its first, and until this week, only formal advice on the taxation of cryptocurrency transactions in Notice 2014-21. This guidance, while helpful in...more
The Wall Street Journal reported recently that the IRS sent letters to over ten thousand taxpayers who own cryptocurrency for failing to declare income from trading cryptocurrencies. Basically, the IRS said, “We know who you...more