Tax Agencies Step Up Efforts to Hone in on Crypto Tax Evasion
Cointelegraph
Published Jan 25, 2020 04:27PM ET
Updated Jan 25, 2020 06:02PM ET
Tax Agencies Step Up Efforts to Hone in on Crypto Tax Evasion
The year 2019, for a short while, raised expectations that stablecoins would bring about mass adoption of cryptocurrencies. 2020, however, seems to be dousing those hopes with ever-tightening regulation that is putting pressure on investors and companies alike.
The first complication came only 10 days into the year. In early January, the European Union’s landmark Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive, or 5AMLD, was signed into law. The law is the latest evolution of the EU’s response to the Panama Papers scandal, in which a leak of over 11 million documents uncovered the opaque financial networks used by the world’s richest and most prominent individuals to divert wealth overseas.
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