Bitcoin User Files White House Petition to Amend Latest IRS Notice
A petition to amend Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Notice 2014-2 - the new guidance released on 25th March that announced digital currencies would be treated as property for tax purposes - has been filed on WhiteHouse.gov. Managed by the presiding presidential administration, the official website of the White House allows for the filing of public petitions on all manner of subjects, from whether Election Day should be a designated holiday, to whether Alaska should secede from the US and join Russia. Petitions that cross a certain threshold of signatures then generally garner a White House....
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In response to the IRS announcing how they will treat Bitcoin and virtual currencies for tax purposes a petition to the White House, has been started to get it amended. This is Due to the overly burdensome way miners would have to keep track of earnings and unclear procedures for doing so. The petition has just been started, so it needs lots of signatures to get looked at by the White House and taken seriously. Here is what the petition states. WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: AMEND IRS NOTICE 2014-2Taxing virtual currency/bitcoin as property stifles new technology & creates....
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