Tax-Free Bitcoin-To-Ether Trading in US to End Under GOP Plan

Re:Tax-Free Bitcoin-To-Ether Trading in US to End Under GOP ... by saalweachter on Thursday December 21, 2017 @12:01PM (#15980520)

That is literally the IRS's job. IRS funding at the margin directly increases or decreases tax revenues, because they have more or less resources to spend pursuing tax evasion.

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Re:Tax-Free Bitcoin-To-Ether Trading in US to End Under GOP ... by jandrese on Thursday December 21, 2017 @02:11PM (#15981840)

Luckily the IRS has been kneecapped by Congress because they started looking into the finances of some sketchy looking conservative nonprofits.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/18/politics/irs-scandal-fast-fact...

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Re:Tax-Free Bitcoin-To-Ether Trading in US to End Under GOP ... by cinquemb on Thursday December 21, 2017 @12:08PM (#15980597)

Well if they contract out the chain analytics work to the most connected firms, I wouldn't be surprised if we found out that russian hackers are the ones behind helping americans launder their bitcoins/ether…

Maybe Equifax has some engineers working on this right now for them!

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