Members of Congress Question IRS’s Digital Currency Strategy Including “John Doe” Summons to Coinbase

Categories: Tax

Three influential members of Congress have questioned the Internal Revenue Service’s strategy for addressing the tax treatment of digital or virtual currencies, such as Bitcoin, and its efforts to uncover the identities of taxpayers who used such currencies through a “John Doe” summons to Coinbase, a virtual currency exchanger in San Francisco.

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