07/17/2024
Crypto Regs are Final!
Effective September 9, 2024, the final regulations adopt, with amendments, the proposed regulations issued in August 2023.
The final regulations require:
brokers to file information returns and furnish payee statements reporting gross proceeds and adjusted basis on dispositions of digital assets effected for customers in certain sale or exchange transactions.
real estate reporting persons to file information returns and furnish payee statements regarding real estate purchasers who use digital assets to acquire real estate.
The final regulations define a digital asset as:
1. a digital representation of value that is recorded on a cryptographically secured distributed ledger (or any similar technology),
2. without regard to whether each individual transaction involving that digital asset is actually recorded on the cryptographically secured distributed ledge, and
3. a digital asset does not include cash in digital form.