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Industry insiders critical of new US crypto tax reporting obligations

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Coin Center warns about surveillance and privacy issues stemming from amendments that require the reporting of crypto transactions of $10,000 or more to the IRS.

US brokers and those operating in course of their trade or business are now required to report crypto transactions worth of $10,000 to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in line with a provision amending the Tax Code of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that came into force on January 1.

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