Cryptocurrencies
IRS Sends Second Round Tax Warnings to Cryptocurrency Investors
- Agency flags disconnect between tax returns and trading forms
- Investors can agree or disagree with ’mismatch’ assertion
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Some cryptocurrency investors are receiving a new round of letters from the Internal Revenue Service telling them that their federal tax returns don’t match the information received from virtual currency exchanges, a new front in the agency’s burgeoning scrutiny of the industry.
The letters acknowledge that trading exchanges, not the taxpayers, may have made the errors.