Bitcoin

In the midst of a global pandemic, the gravitational pull toward digital transactions has been amplified.

To better understand how the U.S. tax rules apply to virtual currency, one can view the many technical issues that arise as answering one of four questions.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board released a document Tuesday with information for auditors and audit committees about audits involving cryptoassets, such as Bitcoin and other digital currencies.

The firm joins a growing group that is accepting cryptocurrency as payment.

Around the same time a sorely needed economic relief package made its way through Congress into law to try to offset the economic wreckage of COVID-19, a unique proposal came to light.

The Internal Revenue Service is including a question at the top of Schedule 1 of the Form 1040 this year asking taxpayers whether they received, sold, sent, exchanged or acquired a financial interest in virtual currency in 2019, but most taxpayers won’t have any record from a Form 1099 about their cryptocurrency transactions.

The papers are mostly short form, and each addresses a specific issue and is meant to provide viewers with cutting-edge perspectives on issues related to the crypto ecosystem’s most hotly debated topics.

The partnership comes at a time when anxieties are high over cryptocurrency regulation and taxation, as much of the guidance from the IRS has proven inadequate and confusing.

Stablecoins are stable-value coins, cryptocurrencies designed to minimize price volatility by pinning value to currencies like the U.S. dollar or to exchange-traded commodities like gold.

The AICPA is also urging the IRS to expand and clarify its cryptocurrency guidance.