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May 20 (UPI) — The Treasury Department on Thursday it’s requiring all transfers worth at least $10,000 to be reported to the Internal Revenue Service in a bid to crack down on cryptocurrency scams.
The announcement was part of the Biden administration’s 24-page tax compliance agenda seeking to close the “tax gap” between taxes owed the government and those actually paid. The Treasury Department said 2019 had a tax gap of nearly $600 billion, a figure that’s likely to rise to about $7 billion over the next decade if unaddressed.
The report said cryptocurrencies and cryptoasset exchange accounts would be brought into a new financial account reporting regime.
“Cryptocurrency already poses a significant detection problem by facilitating illegal activity broadly including tax evasion,” the report said.
The department said it plans to raise an extra $700 billion in tax revenue over the next decade through its new agenda. By comparison, the United…
