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Lawmakers Scramble To Fix ‘Devastating’ Tax Reporting Provisions In Infrastructure Bill
Daily Caller ^ | 11/18/2021 | Ailan Evans

Posted on 11/18/2021 6:23:23 PM PST by markomalley

Lawmakers are working to fix cryptocurrency tax reporting requirements included in the bipartisan infrastructure bill.

The Infrastructure Investment And Jobs Act signed into law by President Joe Biden on Monday contains several digital asset reporting provisions opposed by the cryptocurrency industry and advocates of the technology, who view them as unworkable and stifling.

The first provision creates new reporting requirements for any entity deemed to be a broker, which is defined as “any person who is responsible for regularly providing any service effectuating transfers of digital assets on behalf of another person.” This means “brokers” have to collect and report customer information such as names, addresses and taxpayer identification numbers.

Opponents of the provision say the “broker” definition is too broad and could be taken to include software developers and “miners” — people who lend computing power to verify transactions in exchange for cryptocurrency — who lack that information, thereby creating an impossible regulation with which to comply.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government
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1 posted on 11/18/2021 6:23:23 PM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Which is why crypto is taking a 10% dive


2 posted on 11/18/2021 6:25:04 PM PST by struggle
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To: markomalley

Nothing is too big or too small for Democrats to not screw it up, screw it up more, or completely FUBAR it.


3 posted on 11/18/2021 6:25:56 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: markomalley

Why would they need to fix something they voted in favor of?


4 posted on 11/18/2021 6:26:36 PM PST by vigilante2
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To: markomalley

If you think you can control everything and everyone, you are wrong. Your hubris will only make things worse.


5 posted on 11/18/2021 6:30:07 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: markomalley

Too late...
Obamacare redux...

Americans never seem to learn...
GOP surrender monkeys have raped us again...
Communists cheering the the dimwittedness of the GOP and the american sheeple...


6 posted on 11/18/2021 6:42:17 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: markomalley
If it's already been passed by the House and Senate, and signed into law by POTUS, how can you "fix" it?
How can you amend it in any way without going through all three branches all over again?
If you change one comma it's no longer the legislation the House and Senate voted on, is it?
7 posted on 11/18/2021 6:46:41 PM PST by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: markomalley

Legendary investor Jim Rogers has said for a while that crypto will not be allowed to compete with the Fed or our gubermint. Looks like he nailed it.


8 posted on 11/18/2021 7:20:15 PM PST by icclearly
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To: markomalley

That should make it harder for crooks to traffic in crypto and seems no different than legitimate currency.


9 posted on 11/18/2021 7:28:41 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: markomalley

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10 posted on 11/18/2021 7:37:50 PM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: vigilante2

Nobody read it before they voted for it. They had to pass it to find out what was in it.


11 posted on 11/18/2021 7:40:31 PM PST by Western Phil
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To: markomalley

No one, especially our “legislators”, know what’s in these thousand page monstrosities, except each of the special interest groups who shoehorned their provisions and bribed the cheap whores, aka, our “civil servants” with donations to get their votes.

I think the mafia was less corrupt than the swamp dwellers we have in Washington.


12 posted on 11/18/2021 8:25:32 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Rurudyne

It is a msitake to use language that implies they are doing this by accident, that they are “screwing it up”

They are doing all this deliberately

Just getting some pushback and damage control to save as much as they can


13 posted on 11/18/2021 8:38:29 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SuperLuminal
"Too late... Obamacare redux... Americans never seem to learn... GOP surrender monkeys have raped us again... Communists cheering the the dimwittedness of the GOP and the american sheeple..."

Oh but they are going to take back the house and senate! Ha ha ha ha.

14 posted on 11/18/2021 9:16:38 PM PST by precisionshootist
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To: struggle

I would bet Lawmakers have a vested interest in fixing that section real quick.....


15 posted on 11/18/2021 9:57:26 PM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I did not mean to imply by accident.

People aren’t consistent by accident.


16 posted on 11/18/2021 10:01:08 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Rurudyne

well they might be if they are truly incapable/incompetent

but these guys aren’t that


17 posted on 11/18/2021 10:02:39 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: precisionshootist
"Oh but they are going to take back the house and senate! Ha ha ha ha."

Probably so...

But the results will be the same as always....
Blah... Blah... Blah... Hand waving...
But the usual ZERO results...

We've seen this show too many times to get excited at the possibility of real, actual significant results...

18 posted on 11/19/2021 11:10:00 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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