Current usd price at time of payment is something i would really like as well. To report, need 2 numbers. The first number is usd at time u recieved the coin. This instant you earned income, so tax man needs a usd number to tax it. Then need the usd price sold at. The diffence between these prices is taxed at either short term or long term capital gains, depending on how long u held.
Disclosure so u cant sue me... Im not accountant, this not financial advice. However, this is how my accountant told me to do it.
What I am doing is not counting it as income at all until it converts to USD. IOW, it doesn't matter to me what the price was when it was mined. Only when I convert it to $. As long as it sits in BTC, it is not recognized as income to me. Nobody else has any way of knowing about it until it converts. Six months of records distilled down to a single entry in Quickbooks (at the current exchange rate, it might be a lot longer
). Kano and the other pools are not tracked or monitored by the authorities, only the exchanges.
I can understand where your coming from, but personally I want to leave no stone unturned, when it comes to maximizing my profits.
The United States taxes
BTC as a capital gain, I believe. The price of
BTC when you receive it is important. If you ignore that number, they will tax you at it's price when you convert, instead of when you received. As of right now the price is around $7000usd. Long term miners, like myself, do not convert at this price. Unless Forced too. Cashing out rewards at this price is going to be a waste of profit.
So, keeping the 1st number, and correlating that against monthly cost of equipment and electricity, when converting can give me
a more accurate "starting point" for the amount of capital gains they will tax.
I do fully understand pools are not looked at, and exchanges are, but there is a percentage of the Rewards that get charged to receive
the Rewards. Pool fees. That is also an important number you have to consider. It is a COST you have to pay to receive your rewards.
There is also an exchange percentage you need to capture. These are ALL important numbers. Get the most out of your earnings.
Also, thank you cryptostarusa!!!