Tag: Taxes

The Biden administration wanted to nix a “special tax subsidy for cryptocurrency,” but it wasn’t in the May 28 debt ceiling bill. Another narrow escape? The crypto sector appears to have dodged another bullet. At the time of publication, the United States has reached a political agreement to raise its debt ceiling, avoiding a calamitous…

The proposed regulatory changes seek to simplify how DeFi returns are taxed and reduce the “administrative burden” for taxpayers. The tax treatment of lending and borrowing on decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols could soon be changed in the United Kingdom as the taxation arm of the Treasury is seeking input on a possible new regime. An…

A change to R&D tax rules means that a tech company could lose more than $1 million — but still be on the hook for hundreds of thousands in taxes. The new R&D law has overly broad language that states “any and all” software development must be amortized over five years if the development took…

Technology innovations such as software programming, coding, apps and AI development, and computing and communications hardware manufacturing will be exempted from taxes in El Salvador. El Salvador, the first country to establish Bitcoin as a legal tender, made another historic decision to eliminate all taxes on technology innovations. The move runs parallel to the establishment…

We don’t tax houses while they’re under construction, and we shouldn’t impose taxes on cryptocurrency while it’s staked. Gains accrued by staking cryptocurrency should not be treated as a taxable event. It only makes sense to tax such gains upon their conversion to legal tender currency. To do otherwise undermines a marquee environmental policy from…

The Biden administration wants to apply the wash sale rule to digital assets. U.S. President Joe Biden’s upcoming budget proposal has a few surprises for crypto traders and investors, including a proposed doubling of capital gains for certain investors and a crackdown on crypto wash sales. The Biden administration is set to release its fiscal…