IRS Building ‘Hundreds’ of Crypto Cases — Official Says $7 Billion in Crypto ...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is building “hundreds” of crypto cases to crack down on tax evasion, an official reportedly said. In the fiscal year 2022, the IRS Criminal Investigation Division seized about $7 billion in cryptocurrency, which was double the previous year’s total. IRS Building ‘Hundreds’ of Cases to Crack Down on Tax Evasion via Cryptocurrency The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Investigation Division (CI), the tax authority’s law enforcement branch, is building “hundreds” of crypto cases, Bloomberg reported....
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Payments company Stripe is building a Bitcoin and crypto team to help their platform “support crypto use cases.”
The number of global crypto owners is expected to exceed one billion by the end of the year, according to a report by Crypto.com. “Nations can no longer afford to ignore the growing push to crypto by the public. We may in many cases expect a friendlier stance towards the crypto industry,” the company said. There Will Be More Than 1 Billion Crypto Owners Worldwide This Year, Report Shows Crypto.com released its “Crypto Market Sizing” report last week showing an analysis of cryptocurrency adoption worldwide. The global crypto population increased by 178% in 2021,....
Courts in Russia are hearing a growing number of cases around crypto assets, a new study has shown. About two-thirds of them have been launched under provisions of the country’s Criminal Code but civil cases represent a large share as well.
Criminal Cases Involving Cryptocurrency in Russia Near 1,000 in 2021
Lawsuits related to cryptocurrency, exchange of digital assets and coin minting have seen a serious increase in Russia over the course of last year, reaching a total of 1,531. The number comes from research conducted by the cybersecurity company RTM Group and quoted....
The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation is going to have to deal more and more often with cases involving new kinds of individual rights, its head has recently admitted. Some of them will be related to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, the official believes. Constitutional Court of Russia to Defend Rights Related to Cryptocurrencies Constitutional justice, as far as protection of human rights is concerned, will be increasingly influenced by the emergence of a new generation of rights, Valery Zorkin, chairman of the Constitutional Court of Russia has acknowledged.....