More than 10,000 taxpayers with crypto transactions will receive letters from the IRS by the end of August.
Robert W. Wood
Robert W. Wood is a tax lawyer representing clients worldwide from offices at Wood LLP, in San Francisco. He is the author of numerous tax books and writes frequently about taxes for Forbes.com, Tax Notes, and other publications.
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IRS Crypto Reporting Letter: A Wake-Up Call No Matter Who Gets One - Expert Take
Avoid State Taxes on Crypto With US Supreme Court’s Recent Trust Decision? It might be possible to have your trust pay the lower corporate tax rate of 21% rather than your individual crypto tax rate.
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Bitcoin Prices Could Make Paying Taxes in Bitcoin Even More Attractive How and why to pay taxes in crypto.
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IRS Offshore Amnesty is Closing, But Crypto Investors Still Have Time: Expert Take After a 10 year run, the OVDP will formally close on September 28, 2018, and some people are rushing to get in.
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Do Crypto Trusts Save Taxes? Expert Take Say ‘Hello’ to crypto trusts.
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Taxes on Restricted Crypto and Options Can Be Confusing: Expert Take How the IRS is going to tax your future income.
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Biggest Crypto Tax Debate Is Not What You Think: Expert Take In fact, the biggest crypto tax debate still seems to be about 1031.
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At Tax Time, Who Really Owns That Crypto Anyway? - Expert Take IRS marks cryptocurrency as property, it might prompt you to consider the concept of ownership.
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Tax-Free Ways to Transfer Bitcoin and Other Crypto: Expert Take You can give cryptocurrency as a gift and it doesn’t trigger income taxes. But the IRS is unlikely to be persuaded unless you document it.
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Paying Tax in Crypto Ironically Triggers More Taxes - Expert Take Every time you transfer crypto into fiat, you might trigger gain or loss.
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How to Guarantee a More Predictable Tax Result Until IRS Has a Special Crypto Amnesty: Expert Blog Although there is not yet an IRS amnesty for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency taxpayers, there still is one for offshore accounts.
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Crypto Tax Tips To Start 2018 Right Cryptocurrencies as property, interest for crypto loans and more from our expert tax lawyer.
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Are Bitcoin Tax Records Ever Optional With IRS? Expert Blog Downloading and exporting transactions in cybercoins or copying it all down can be of bright service when IRS makes it to the cryptoworld. What happens though i...
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IRS Bitcoin Hunt Ramps Up, But Tax Amnesty Could Follow: Expert Blog Using the example of Coinbase Robert Wood explained why cryptocurrency holders will not have any chance to stay in shadow.
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House and Senate Tax Bills Kill Cryptocurrency “Like Kind” Exchanges: Expert Blog Trades between two cryptocurrencies may or may not qualify as nontaxable “like kind” exchanges, but new bill would nix that possibility.
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