The Treasury has just announced a new set of rules about reporting crypto transfers because, they claim... “Cryptocurrency already poses a significant detection problem by facilitating illegal activity broadly including tax evasion.”
If you think the timing is coincidental with yesterday's plunge, we have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
“As with cash transactions, businesses that receive cryptoassets with a fair-market value of more than $10,000 would also be reported on,” the Treasury Department said in a report on tax-enforcement proposals released Thursday.
The Treasury said that comprehensive reporting is necessary “to minimize the incentives and opportunity to shift income out of the new information reporting regime.” It noted that cryptocurrency is a small share of current business transactions.