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Title    IRS: Virtual Currencies are Taxable
Date    Wednesday March 26 2014, @08:40AM
Author    LaminatorX
Topic   
from the you-know-you've-arrived-when dept.
https://dev.soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/03/26/112208

gishzida writes:

Reuters reports, "Wading into a murky tax question for the digital age, the Internal Revenue Service said on Tuesday that virtual currencies such as Bitcoin are to be treated as property for tax purposes. General tax principles that apply to property transactions apply to transactions using virtual currency," the IRS said in a statement."

Better put that BTC wallet in a mattress.

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  1. "gishzida" - http://dev.soylentnews.org/~gishzida
  2. "reports, " - http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/25/us-bitcoin-irs-idUSBREA2O1LR20140325

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