eupolicy.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
This Mastodon server is a friendly and respectful discussion space for people working in areas related to EU policy. When you request to create an account, please tell us something about you.

Server stats:

217
active users

#taxcode

0 posts0 participants0 posts today

the giant pot of bitcoins bought with leverage and the money of retail suckers that masquerades as a company known as #MicroStrategy (#MSTR) has a massive tax problem and has run to the IRS for help. They teamed up with #Coinbase and wrote a 76 page Very Angry Letter about how they cannot possibly be expected to follow the tax code as written.

(tl;dr the value of their bitcoins went up and they don't want to pay taxes on them despite taking an absolutely *massive* tax impairment a year or two ago when their bitcoins had gone down)

For bonus points consider that the CEO of MicroStrategy #MichaelSaylor was personally busted for massive tax fraud and had to pay a $51 million fine just a few months ago.

* WSJ: wsj.com/finance/currencies/mic
* no paywall: archive.ph/U4LQC
* 76 page letter: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/d

#IRS#taxes#crypto
Replied in thread

@cweickhmann

"(...) The establishment of a non-profit foundation under US tax law (501(c)(3)) by #Mastodon gGmbH should ideally wake up the #BMF to finally expand §52 #TaxCode to include a few contemporary non-profit statuses. The development and free provision of free #OpenSource software (#FOSS) should be one of them. (...)

a loud cry for a certain systematization and principle orientation of the non-profit regulations in Germany. (...)"