IRS, Crypto taxation. Photo by BeInCrypto The US Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are preparing to relax a proposed tax rule that subjected crypto companies to a 15% minimum tax on unrealized gains from their digital asset holdings. This new guidance responds to significant pushback from companies like MicroStrategy and Coinbase. They argued that taxing paper profits on crypto was unfair and inconsistent with the treatment of traditional assets like stocks and bonds. IRS Eases Co ...

The Treasury Department is preparing to formally exempt crypto holdings from the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax (CAMT), which would eliminate a potential multibillion-dollar tax liability for companies like Strategy that hold substantial Bitcoin reserves. According to Eleanor Terret, the move addresses the 15% minimum tax on large corporations’ financial statement income that would have forced companies to pay taxes on unrealized digital asset gains under accounting rules requiring mark-to-market valua ...