Parents, it’s time for ‘the talk’: Did your kid trade crypto in 2020?

Parents, it’s time for ‘the talk’: Did your kid trade crypto in 2020?

Now is the time to look beyond your own income-producing activities and look to your children’s crypto as well. The taxation of cryptocurrency is no longer just a young person’s problem. That changed the day the United States Internal Revenue Service made cryptocurrency a focal point of enforcement and added a crypto disclosure question on its Form 1040. Unsuspecting parents with dependent children should be on guard. The IRS is looking for noncompliance, and crypto questions create a possibly perjurious trap. Noncompliance may be sleeping in the basements of many unwary parents.As of....


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