Date: January 6th, 2018 3:09 PM Author: Aqua Library Nibblets
im still doing it
fraud penalty is 75%
much better to make up/guess a gain for every exchange you use than have IRS claim you failed to report one completely. much easier to argue fraud that way
Date: January 6th, 2018 3:18 PM Author: Rambunctious kitchen
i think there's a proposal in congress to change it so you just report it as gross income and pay the standard % on your EOY gains, no matter how many coins you traded
Date: January 6th, 2018 3:24 PM Author: well-lubricated new version
yeah fuck all that. i used coinbase to buy roughly 25k of bitcoin throughout last year based on my bank records. this year i hope to cash out a much bigger number and deposit it into the same account. i will calculate my gain as the money i deposit this year minus the money i took out last year. easy. i’ll even pay the short term cap gains rate to be safe (though if the irs doesn’t clarify whether coin for coin exchanges get like kind exchange treatment in 2017, i may treat them as such and wait to hear otherwise)
i will happily take the chance that some irs person in the future asks about the incremental gains and losses on my millions of coin for coin trades. this obviously means i won’t report anything for 2017 since i haven’t seen a dollar of cash from cryptos
CR. I used coinbase to buy all my ETH. And I'm transferring ETH back to CB to cash out. They have solid instant reporting and I'm not trying to hide shit. People shit on CB and I get it, but it's so much easier to have the same entry and exit point.