Court Authorizes IRS to Summon User Records From Kraken Cryptocurrency Exchange
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has obtained court authorization to serve a John Doe summons on cryptocurrency exchange Kraken. The tax agency is seeking data of users with $20,000 or more in cryptocurrency transactions during the years 2016 to 2020. IRS Wants User Information From Crypto Exchanges The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that a federal court in the Northern District of California has authorized the IRS “to serve a John Doe summons on Payward Ventures Inc., and subsidiaries d/b/a Kraken.” The IRS is “seeking information about U.S.....
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The IRS has been authorized to seek information on users of the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, to ensure they are paying their taxes.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has obtained a “court order authorizing summons for records relating to U.S. taxpayers who failed to report and pay taxes on cryptocurrency transactions.” The IRS commissioner commented: “The government’s ability to obtain third-party information on those failing to report their gains from digital assets remains a critical tool in catching tax cheats.”
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A court in northern California has ordered Kraken to provide info on users who traded more than $20,000 between 2016 and 2020 to the IRS. Kraken has been ordered to provide information on its users to who conducted the equivalent of $20,000 in crypto transactions in any one year, between 2016 and 2020, to the Internal Revenue Service. A federal court in northern California authorized the IRS to serve a “John Doe summons” on Kraken yesterday. The exchange is not alleged to have done anything wrong. The IRS is after the records of an “ascertainable group or class of persons” who may have....