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Kraken Loses Bid To Avoid Turning Over Customer Information to IRS

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In a recent ruling, a California federal judge held that Kraken, an online cryptocurrency exchange program, has to turn over user information to the IRS as a result of a John Doe summons originally served on Kraken in 2021....more

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IRS Wins Ex-Parte Petition for Another Crypto John Doe Summons

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On September 21, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted the IRS’s ex-parte motion for leave to serve a John Doe summons to M.Y. Safra Bank after the IRS’s investigation into digital asset...more

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El IRS Advierte A Los Contribuyentes Contra Las Estrategias De Evasión Fiscal

El IRS concluyó su lista de Estafas de la Docena Sucia (“Dirty Dozen”) del 2022 recomendando a los contribuyentes a estar atentos y evitar ser engañados por las estrategias de evasión fiscal....more

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IRS Continues to Hunt for Cryptocurrency Investors with John Doe Summonses

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The IRS knows it has a problem, in that it knows there are far more cryptocurrency transactions than are being reported on tax returns. The IRS may also get an $80 billion increase in funding for enforcement that will help...more

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IRS Warns Taxpayers Against Tax Avoidance Strategies

The IRS wrapped its 2022 Dirty Dozen scams list urging taxpayers to watch out for and avoid being misled by tax avoidance strategies. Making the 2022 List are Cryptocurrency, non-filing, abusive syndicated conservation...more

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Cryptocurrency Tax Enforcement May Soon Reward Tipsters Through Whistleblower Program and False Claims Act

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Key Takeaways - ..Taxpayers could be criminally and civilly liable under state False Claims Act statutes for underreporting income linked to virtual currency. ..While the federal False Claims Act explicitly excludes tax...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.8.2021 | Top Story: Tesla Makes Good on Threat to Move HQ from Cali to Texas

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Jobs Report Friday! Here’s what analysts are looking for in the numbers, with the Delta variant’s impact on the recovery still looming large - MarketWatch and NYTimes and WSJ and Bloomberg Elon Musk & Co. are decamping from...more

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Financial Daily Dose 6.14.2021 | Top Story: Whistleblowers Allege Private Equity Games U.S. Tax System

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The Times digs into what it’s calling private equity’s “conquer[ing of] the American tax system”—where “slight-of-hand tax-avoidance strategies” are so “aggressive” and pervasive that “at least three private equity officials...more

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A Warning to Cryptocurrency Users from the Justice Department’s Tax Division

As you might expect during tax season, the Justice Department’s press releases seem particularly focused on tax-related issues these days.  At the start of this month, DOJ sent a stern reminder to the public that...more

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Department of Justice Announces “Cryptocurrency: An Enforcement Framework”

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On October 8, 2020, the Attorney General’s Cyber Digital Task Force announced the release of a publication entitled Cryptocurrency: An Enforcement Framework (the “Enforcement Framework”). The Enforcement Framework describes...more

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EU committee calls on Commission to set out common blockchain approach

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An advisory committee to EU institutions has issued an opinion on blockchain and the EU single market, advising the European Commission on potential next steps, including launching a "comprehensive" blockchain initiative,...more

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HMRC’s New Approach to Cryptoassets – Tax First, Define Later

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The UK tax authority, Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC), has taken a further step towards tackling perceived tax avoidance in transactions involving cryptoassets. Specifically, according to press reports, exchanges such...more

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