Regarding me filing those tax forms, I don't see why I'd have to report it, I guess I'll do it though, no biggie. If you care to share your opinion, what's the big deal about me filing that? That money was already taxed before I sent it ($20K, very large to me)
If I someday converted BitCoins back to USD for a "profit", then I could understand why I'd need to report that.
Those BitCoins may always stay as BitCoins from now on. Now they are untraceable.
Thanks.
You need to speak with a tax professional for all of your answers. But those forms are mandatory and tell the govt that you own a foreign deposit account, it isn't for a tax (yet). The IRS just needs to keep track of all foreign accounts so it can easily seize them when the time comes. That is why bank to bank transactions are a risky idea for sending usd out of the country.
And it doesn't matter if the usd has turned into btc, the govt knows you control a $20k account and you have to account for it. When the govt issues a confiscation order or a tax order a la Cyprus, if you don't cough it up, the Japanese govt will seize it for them and turn it over like the Swiss did. Or the feds can use the IRS powers to seize domestic assets or garnish wages.
So the only way to get untraceable btc is to trade for cash without ID. Once the feds seize your mtgox account, they will have your btc address and can trace your btc if you've sent it out.
And finally, people who exchange cash for btc are not always engaged in illegal activity. But all of them are asserting their basic human right to privacy. It is lamentable they must use btc to do that, but that is the bed we have made and know we all get to lay in it.
Talk to a tax lawyer ASAP.
Thanks for the reply. Very generous of you. I will say though that I'm not really afraid of anything, even if there is a "Cyprus Redux" in Japan and they want to confiscate 10% of accounts there. I'm not afraid because those BitCoins are long gone out of that account and are in several different wallets scattered around BlockChain and my computer