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Here's a snippit of a pm to an other meber that translates the article i was refering to

Yesterday Bitcoin hit the front page of the main news page here in holland again. 
here is a link to the article: http://www.nu.nl/tech/3495285/inkomsten-in-bitcoins-worden-belast.html
It's in dutch but here's a translate/recap of it before you put it in to google translate.

Basically the article states that the minister of finance (Dijsselbloem) states that people acquiring income out of Bitcoin (actually  get payed in coin) need to pay income tax on the coins. The reason for the this statement is that there has been a debate in parlement regarding Bitcoin. The minister states that even though BTC is not recognized as a legal currency (in Holland); people who get payed in BTC need to pay income tax on it.

No risk
He also states 'that as of yet' there is no risk to the financial stability in regards to 'the real economy' due to the limited market cap and low degree of acceptance of BTC. He also states that the developments of this virtual currency are closely monitored by the dutch federal bank (federal reserve) because it's not uncertain that the use of these virtual currencies may increase.

20 Million euro
The minister also states that around 2% of all coins are in dutch hands which equals around 20 million euro. The statement is made due to questions by the parlement after the big swings in value in april (the crash event)

This is only true if you convert to fiat.
The article I linked to states receiving paycheck in BTC not receive BTC and convert to euro or usd.
This changes the game. They state BTC doen't meet the requirements of a currency under current law.

I think this spawned because of a major IT company payed out the anual 'vacation money' in BTC

He probably already has those officials in his pocket like a handful of satoshis.

Well the major problem I see with taxing bitcoin income is the same one we have right now.
How do you value a coin?
so I earned 10 coins today-> this can buy me a nice tv today but tomorrow the same tv costs 15 coins.
so I earn 40 coins a month what taxbox does this fit? 45% or 52%? and why am I in a certain taxbox while coins increase or decrease in value?

I don't think this is the case. Businesses have transacted in foreign currency for a very long time, but in most countries, you still can't pay your taxes with it. There are long standing accounting rules for handling the conversion of foreign currencies to your home currency and the recognition of the profit/loss derived from the conversion.

I don't see why Bitcoin would be any different. The IRS doesn't want to deal with currency risk in the collection of taxes.

Edit: I stand corrected. Apparently there are people who live overseas and send checks denominated in foreign currency to the IRS in payment of their taxes. However, the IRS puts the currency risk back on the payor, so if there is a shortage after they convert it to USD, the taxpayer owes the balance.

http://www.accountingweb.com/article/tigta-addresses-irs-trouble-processing-foreign-currency-tax-payments/221519

That quote was closely allied to Max Kaisers announcement of his desire to open a London exchange.  

Little bit of a wall on Bitstamp

$107.00   130.10962618   $13,921.73

What? Are you kidding? Bent bananas? I can see a million uses right there!

A quote from the article:

Not exactly what we want, but that would sure allow more people to come in as it would add certainty.
I mean, there are exchanges that follow regulations now, but I'm sure they are hinting at something more "official"...

~ 2k coins dumped in last 20 min. Waiting for more volume!

so this forum's gonna tell me people ain't watching mad bitcoins channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/madbitcoins/videos

There are some things that are difficult to prove. But, it seems like the Bitcoin community has mentioned the Cyprus event time and time again. I remember that time
well and following the story and just seeing Bitcoin ramp up and then after the official Cyprus announcement it started the parabolic rise.
No, we don't have proof. That is where poets come in, communicating things like love (not provable) with poetic words. Poets, poets, anyone???

or not

and it's happening again

What's that coming over the hill? Is it the taxman?

never mind
but thanks for the info, now i learned something about regulation of fruits in eu.
you never know when that gets useful.

They have to accept it.
End-of-year business accounts around the world, are being presented to their respective tax offices, with a declaration of this strange new thing called Bitcoin.
They need to get with the program, if they are to tax their citizens effectively. If the declarations are sizable, we will start to see some precedents with regards to tax, soon.

Not interested in nitpicking, just thought I'd post a wikipedia link rather than the EU regulation.

They can only regulate as far as we allow them to...
but I do think if the IRS makes it official and governments accept BTC this would be a bullish sign for mass adoption.
and we all know what that means...