The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) made a pair of announcements on July 2 that it is increasing its focus on taxpayers who avoid their tax obligations using cryptocurrency. Background By way of background, in April 2014, the IRS issued Notice 2014-21, which generally provided that “convertible virtual currency” is treated as property, not currency, for … Continue Reading
After a year-long fight with the IRS on turning over customer data, Coinbase both won and lost. It won in that the court significantly narrowed the type of information that it was ordered to turn over to the IRS. It lost in that it was still required to turn over data on approximately 13,000 customers. … Continue Reading
