• IRS seeking crypto expertise
    The IRS is coming for it's cut. And it wants help (Photo: Shutterstock)
    Regulation

    Crypto tax firm: IRS seeking audit expertise

    CryptoTrader.Tax received an email inviting it to bid for work helping the taxman ‘calculate gains or losses,’ but flatly rejected the offer

    May 15, 2020 /

    A platform that helps cryptocurrency traders fill out their tax returns revealed it was invited by the Internal Revenue Service to perform audits… but turned the agency down.

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  • Bittax VP Or Lokay Cohen at the Ethereal conference in Tel Aviv on September 15, 2019 (photo by Molly Jane Zuckerman for Modern Consensus).
    Bittax VP Or Lokay Cohen at the Ethereal conference in Tel Aviv on September 15, 2019 (photo by Molly Jane Zuckerman for Modern Consensus).
    Technology

    How the IRS is cracking down on crypto taxes: A conversation with Bittax’s Or Lokay Cohen

    At this weekend’s Ethereal Summit, Modern Consensus delved into the murky waters of cryptocurrency taxation and its various pitfalls

    September 18, 2019 /

    Or Lokay Cohen has been at crypto tax calculation service Bittax since 2016, which means that she may know more about how to file crypto taxes than any other person alive. Lokay Cohen told Modern Consensus that she came to the Ethereal conference in Tel Aviv on September 15 to meet other like-minded crypto people, as she was toying with the idea of using Ethereum-based smart contracts to pay your taxes automatically for the IRS.

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