The IRS Criminal Investigation unit has issued a warning to cryptocurrency holders about a sophisticated phishing scheme. It uses official-looking paper letters to steal personal data and digital assets. The scam is built around a fake Digital Asset Compliance Portal, a portal the IRS confirms does not exist. Crypto holders
A user of Coinbase who attempted to block an IRS summons for his financial records got blocked by a California court. As per the information from PACER, Roger Metz filed a petition in the Northern District of California in May 2025 to cancel an IRS summons that looked for his
The government of the United States has requested that the Supreme Court accept the Coinbase users’ challenge against the Internal Revenue Service’s effort to obtain their crypto transaction records. On May 30, Solicitor General D. John Sauer claimed in his filing that the user of Coinbase, James Harper, has no
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has appointed Trish Turner as the new head of its digital assets division. Her promotion follows the sudden departure of Sulolit “Raj” Mukherjee and Seth Wilks, two private-sector experts who previously co-led the IRS crypto unit. Turner has worked at the IRS for over
President Donald Trump has signed a law repealing a Biden-era IRS rule that extended tax reporting requirements to decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms. The IRS rule, finalized in late 2024, aimed to treat DeFi operators as brokers and force them to report user transaction data. Although it was scheduled to take
The U.S. Senate voted to repeal a controversial tax rule targeting decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms with a final vote of 70-28. The rule, introduced under the Biden administration, required DeFi platforms to report crypto transactions to the IRS. This mirrored the obligations of traditional financial institutions. This decision marks an
Members of the House of Representatives voted with a clear majority to reverse IRS regulations that define crypto entities together with DeFi platforms as brokers. The latest IRS rule required all crypto entities to gather tax information from their users before the Biden administration left office. The Congress gained a
Elon Musk, the well-known tech entrepreneur and owner of X, recently stirred up the cryptocurrency world with a humorous post addressing the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) about taxing crypto. Musk’s post, which highlighted the absurdity of crypto taxation, also quickly gained traction and reactions from the crypto community, generating
The New DeFi Regulations from the IRS On December 27, 2024, the IRS released a final rule that may change the course of decentralized finance (DeFi) forever. The rule classified DeFi front-end platforms as brokers, similar to those in decentralized exchanges (DEXs). This means that Uniswap, among other similar exchanges.
IRS Targets DeFi Platforms with New Reporting Rules The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has recently released a new tax regulation that is going to affect decentralized finance platforms from 2027. The regulations require DeFi brokers to report all the gross proceeds from the sale of digital assets and collect user
