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Tax News out of USA and Australia


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Two interesting stories crossing the newswires today related to paying taxes on your crypto.  Everyone pays their taxes, right?

Anyway, in the USA the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has not offered any guidance on crypto since 2014.  They have announced they are updating their guidance and will include things like how to value your coins, picking which coins you sell, and very important - how to value your forked coins.  These issues have similarities with other assets, e.g. stocks, but no formal statement on them exists.  I hope they keep it simple, but have my doubts....

In similar news, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has announced a crack down on crypto currencies.  The good news is they seem to be targeting large scale operators, the article mentioned 5 investigations including financial firms, the bad news is they are working with four other nations - the U.S., the U.K., the Netherlands and Canada - to find tax cheats.

I like it more when crypto was unregulated! :D

Link to IRS article:  https://www.coindesk.com/what-to-expect-when-the-irs-alters-its-bitcoin-tax-policy

Link to ATO article:  https://www.coindesk.com/australia-to-crack-down-on-crypto-tax-avoidance-schemes

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hello wryy its good news and bad news too,whether its create new regulatory committee for  its or the existing system will adopt like a mainstream currency.one more thing if normal taxcession  adopted then it's too hard  for us to selling and buying with a high percentage taxes to paid every time.hope whatever be the result universal for us crypto may be now count as mainstream currency .

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Seems like they are getting lazy with drafting new legislation! I guess it is a good thing for people who hold massive amounts of bitcoin lol. But in all seriousness, I think as crypto becomes more popular, more countries will try regulate it.

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Unregulated crypto is definitely the dream for us regular users of it. :D

Even so it seems that governments are hellbent of taking a share of the crypto-pie of everyone using cryptocurrencies lol.

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I think that this is so far directed to major currency owners and official exchanges and exchangers. And now taxes are not applied to private individuals and the majority is still in the shadow.

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