Video of the Rules Committee meeting is below and you can watch Rep. Jared Polis speak about the bill that he co-sponsored with Rep. David Schweikert. The amendment would have created a de minimis capital gains tax exemption for personal cryptocurrency transactions, and helped clarify how exchanges could offer third-party tax reporting.
While the amendment was not adopted, we applaud the bipartisan leadership shown by Reps. Polis and Schweikert. That they recognized this issue, introduced a bill, and got it this far means a lot and it shows the IRS that many in Congress believe that the existing tax treatment of cryptocurrencies needs to be updated. The bill’s language didn’t make it into the larger tax reform bill, but that doesn’t mean the bill itself is dead; it’s alive and well and we will continue to advocate for its passage by Congress, and we’ll continue to work to try to have the IRS adopt as much of it as it might be able to through rulemaking. For an ecosystem that is barely a decade old to get this far in Congress is remarkable, and we’re only just starting.
Watch: @RepJaredPolis offers The Cryptocurrency Tax Fairness Act as an amendment to the House tax reform bill last night https://t.co/p1zdobIynC pic.twitter.com/rMuDw6OWBE
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