Episode 11: Tax Effects of Cryptocurrency
Podcast Host: Jacob Sopczynski, CPA
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On episode 11 of Everyday Business, host Jacob Sopczynski, principal in the Flint office, is joined by Randy Howard, CPA, and Zaher Basha, CPA, CM&AA, from the Auburn Hills office.
Listen in as Jacob, Randy, and Zaher discuss the tax effects of cryptocurrency in the second of our two-part series on blockchain.
- When do cryptocurrencies become taxable (1:11)
- Transferring cryptocurrency and its effects (3:00)
- Being compensated through cryptocurrency (4:42)
- Nontaxable cryptocurrency transactions (5:50)
- Is buying and trading in cryptocurrency taxable? (7:04)
- Reporting (8:27)
- Cost to cost tracking (10:10)
- Penalties for not reporting cryptocurrency (14:40)
- Foreign reporting (15:14)
- How TCJA changed the taxation of cryptocurrency (16:20)
- Tax considerations with forking (17:00)
- Credit cards that give cash back via bitcoin (17:48)
- Reporting and what records should be maintained when paying employees? (18:23)
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