I am sure they will eventually.
Everyone is griping and complaining about their "property" ruling. Well, first of all, it puts bitcoin holders at a 15% tax rate instead of up to 39%.
This is a huge incentive for bitcoin as a store of value investment.
Second, the government has no way of tracking if you bought a coffee at Starbucks with your bitcoin "property." This is just nuts. Of course an accountant is going to tell you that it matters, because that is their job, however, the IRS is not going to expect, nor have a way to enforce (despite their ruling) you to list every little incidental transactions of purchase you made with bitcoin.
In fact, I believe that the IRS ruled bitcoin as property instead of currency because it was the easiest and quickest ruling. What did people expect the IRS to do? Create a new class of digital investment currency tax laws? Ha. The IRS is already understaffed as it is and they don't spend there time going around auditing people who don't make more than $200k a year anyway unless there is something ridiculously suspicious going on. Its just not cost effective for them.
Everyone is griping and complaining about their "property" ruling. Well, first of all, it puts bitcoin holders at a 15% tax rate instead of up to 39%.
This is a huge incentive for bitcoin as a store of value investment.
Second, the government has no way of tracking if you bought a coffee at Starbucks with your bitcoin "property." This is just nuts. Of course an accountant is going to tell you that it matters, because that is their job, however, the IRS is not going to expect, nor have a way to enforce (despite their ruling) you to list every little incidental transactions of purchase you made with bitcoin.
In fact, I believe that the IRS ruled bitcoin as property instead of currency because it was the easiest and quickest ruling. What did people expect the IRS to do? Create a new class of digital investment currency tax laws? Ha. The IRS is already understaffed as it is and they don't spend there time going around auditing people who don't make more than $200k a year anyway unless there is something ridiculously suspicious going on. Its just not cost effective for them.
I think you may have forgotten about the roughly 13% self emplyment tax which will also be imposed on earning according to the ruling.
I will be soon offering a legal solution for that one though!
My $.02.
What legal solution, can you tell us any more?
I will soon have the text and website for my legal, ethical and easy to work offering ready; in fact, this weekend if all goes well.
I will keep you posted and thank you for your interest!
My $.02.
