Searing my lad, you had the intelligence to hold all the LTC you mined with your Titans instead of dumping it at the prevailing low prices. You tell us what LTC will be worth after halving
We are dealing with me so I would suspect 1 buck...it is how my luck works
Also due to bank going after me (in error) and informing SEC on supposed money xfer with evil Bitcoin in Fall of 2013 (was resolved because I filed my
stuff as a business with a tax form to prove such at the bank meeting. on does that quickly with letter from SEC in the mail
....was then resolved in less then 15 min as a mistake ...I proved bank was in error
I did not move 99k I moved 10,131.80 in a money order to KNC) all was well but as a result IRS and SEC etc now see me as legit business (damn it!)
note link to guidelines
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Virtual-Currency-GuidanceThus escaping a long drawn out affair with SEC/BANK/IRS and whoever else wanted to get me for the Evil Bitcoin ...I thus follow the rules of the
2013 IRS Guidelines on Virtual Currency ..which is 25% Tax on what you mine (The IRS hates that folk are making money out of thin Air) and also
That on top of that if you SELL YOUR VIRTUAL COIN YOU MINED before 1 YEAR AND 1 DAY ..it is further taxed 40% capital gains. As you can see
that would be silly.
If more then 1 year and 1 day you sell your virtual currency then it is just normal 20% capital gains on your profits should you sell your virtual currency.
So yeah if i would have sold LTC direct to BTC (i never found a multipool that did not work like crap so I just held LTC) no capital gains at all if daily...just the 25%
tax for making money out of the air by mining ....oh I do get 25% off all my equip as deductions and other stuff as a home biz so the previous is a wash
anyway.
But they count the virtual currency as it hits your address outside the pool address ..thus if 50 LTC hit every 3 days what LTC is at that day is what
I am taxed on.....ave price mined on first 2500 LTC was 1.72 usd so I have slack
So...I"m kinda stuck on holding LTC as a result of all this ..I could move 6k or so of LTC to BTC AS LONG AS IT IS NO MORE then what the LTC was to mine
according to what I supposed to pay on taxes....so have about 700 ltc I could move to BTC in that manner .my CPA said it is like moving usd to canadian
dollars as long as the amount is no more then I mined (so far for income) I could do so ....but again 700 ltc ..I'm so far in have not done so as yet...
So anyway for those of you not in my boat.....just sit on your wad of coin..tell no one and when 2018 comes around or so and the IRS rules are
less stupid just say you had a good year trading coin and then report your stash and from then on you would just have to worry about the 20% capital
gains as you dribbled it out. IN NO WAY tell them you are mining .....and that will be the only tax you'd pay if you chose to go legal.
Me....never made it to the trees past the guard towers was cut down and trapped in above..I may pull out the equiv w/o taxes in the above
but it is a lot of work
Anyway from what I figure mining till the end of the year ...at the very least I'm gonna be stuck holding 2500 LTC at least for the above to keep my equip
depreciation stuff going and other home biz goodies (must keep IRS happy show me as a happy miner (or farmer as my CPA says I am taxed ie land)
Then again if the price does tank to 1 buck as is my lot in life ..LTC difficulty will tank and I will just make a lot more LTC per day etc and
pay less taxes......my goal with the 2500 LTC is to wait for the bitcoin halving in fall of 2016 and dump most of it then to BTC as I can
then because close to enough time has passed... if LTC holds together say at the usual 0.001 LTC to BTC I should be fine..but it sucks.
So yeah this is either gonna work well and make me look smart if LTC goes to say 4 bucks after halving or more. Or it will be the poor
bastard never had a chance...one or the other..one thing I do know for the 13k total or so (after equip depr off taxes) I have in this. IT sure
as hell makes no sense for me to piss off the IRS at this point..thus I'm so squeaky clean on virtual currency (got a CPA) I squeak IRS happiness
as I walk...in my case....not worth 'tweaking' taxes..I know guys who p/o the IRS after the fact...I'll eat all the 13k at a loss rather then
deal with that!
.everyone else imho stay dark and again in 2018 with SENSIBLE IRS RULES say by that point
just tell them what you got in your hoard and say you had a very good year trading and buying (not mining) if you don't sell your BTC or LTC
no problems at that point. only taxed 20% capital gains over what it cost you from the IRS point of view at that point...no tax on holding
Sucks to be me (maybe we will see) so mastermind me NO...Wisdom of holding LTC big NO ..just kinda sorta
have to.......of course if there is 8 buck LTC in DEC 2015 I will disavow any knowledge
of this post and claim brilliance
But then again I will delete this post as evidence at that point
anyway we will see
If it is any consolation my CPA thinks it is all a big hoot and seems to be having a good time at least someone is happy