[Ipg-smz] Ohio accepts bitcoin to pay taxes (Techcrunch)

[Liam Kelly]

Don't you need to report any transaction to the IRS?

I know in Germany buying a coffee (retail transactions in general) has
recently been taken been taken out of the tax authorities cross hairs, but
I wasn't sure if this was the case in the US. Can I go to Starbucks without
telling the authorities about my crypto purchase?

As a side note, the BTC tax situation in Ohio includes an important detail.
Ohio will be converting their BTC to USD inmediately (via payments platform
BTCPay). So the loss/gain of value will always be on the side of the
holder, and never Ohio.

When were you mining BTC by the way? Did you never report your earnings on
your BTC at that time? I think at the recent price points you could likely
boot up your rig again...

Tom Henderson <thenderson at extremelabs.com> schrieb am Mi. 28. Nov. 2018 um
03:18:

> BTC, in and of themselves, are not "taxable events". If you minted them,
> you have a basis and may have a capital gain in their manufacture.
>
> If you bought high and sold higher, there's a taxable gain. If you bought
> high and sold low, you have a loss.
>
> If you bought BTC at $5K and sold that segment for $5K, there is no loss
> or gain, and there is no theory of tax that applies, except those
> surrounding intangible property taxes, which are usually transient (taxed
> once per annum or period).
>
> So, paying in BTC for taxes due doesn't create another taxable event, e.g.
> no double taxation.
>
> Is Ohio smart or stupid for taking BTC? Smart. Three reasons: 1) it outs
> BTC holders who may or may not have an unreported possible gain; 2) allows
> those that bought high, which includes many people, a way of paying
> potentially without an offsetting loss, which would lower Ohio's capital
> gain income; and 3) getting paid today offsets inflation. All taxing
> authorities want to offset inflation, which they can't control.
>
> Tom
>
>
> On 11/27/18 6:12 AM, Liam Kelly wrote:
>
> The second degree of irony (of which I'm still parsing through) is that in
> the US all Bitcoin transactions are taxable events.
>
> So does that mean that paying taxes in BTC would also engender yet another
> taxable event?
>
> Outside of the infinite feedback loop of paying your crypto taxes, I think
> Ohio has done this more in regards of optimism/adoption ("bullish") and
> hoping to attract small businesses.
>
> The Midwest, in general, indeed seems pretty curious to attract crypto
> talent. There are more than a few politicians from the region announcing
> their crypto support.
>
> Final note: Bitcoin will eventually get absorbed by the state or die. I
> feel pretty confident about that despite holding a bit of this magic
> Internet money...
>
>
> Tom Geller <tom at tomgeller.com> schrieb am Di. 27. Nov. 2018 um 18:25:
>
>> This strikes me as strange because of something taught to me in an
>> economics class 15 years ago: Taxes are one of the only pinchpoints where
>> government can insist on payment in dollars.
>>
>> Even if the rest of society starts trading in chicken feet, by insisting
>> on dollars the government ensures that they continue to have value. (No
>> dollars? We're putting you in jail.) When the Hungarian pengő bills became
>> near-worthless in 1945, what replaced them? Tax certificates ("adópengő").
>>
>> Perhaps I was mistaught, or that economic model is no longer valid. Or
>> perhaps the state is sticking it to the federal government. (In the latter
>> case, I'd expect some lawsuits and public statements.) In either case, I
>> don't get it.
>>
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