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Re:Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision... by wizzwizz4 on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @10:16AM (#28049468)
And then you're back to where you started, surely? You still need the information about income.
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Re:Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision... by NickM on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @11:40AM (#28050511)
Right, but the problem cited earlier up in the thread is that sales tax would prevent anonymous purchases; if you accept that income is not anonymous (which it already isn't), then you can still have a system with both sales tax and anonymous purchases.
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