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White House Confirmed Support For Minor Changes In Tax Proposal

White House confirmed support for some minor changes in the crypto tax proposal while the crypto community is rallying up against the infrastructure plan which maintains strict reporting requirements for validators and developments as we are reading more in our latest crypto regulation news. White House confirmed the support for changes in the crypto tax […]

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White House confirmed support for some minor changes in the crypto tax proposal while the crypto community is rallying up against the infrastructure plan which maintains strict reporting requirements for validators and developments as we are reading more in our latest crypto regulation news.
White House confirmed the support for changes in the crypto tax proposal backing the last-minute amendment to the infrastructure deal in the statement to clarify the measure to reduce tax evasion in the crypto market. The statement by the deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said:
“The Administration believes this provision will strengthen tax compliance in this emerging area of finance and ensure that high income taxpayers are contributing what they owe under the law. We are grateful to Chairman Wyden for his leadership in pushing the Senate to address this issue, however we believe that the alternative amendment put forward by Senators Warner, Portman, and Sinema strikes the right balance and makes an important step forward in promoting tax compliance.”
The community is pushing back against the amendments to the provisions of the White House’s infrastructure plan which aims to raise $28 billion for infrastructure funding via expanded taxation on crypto transactions and to impose new requirements for crypto brokers. Senators Mark Warner and Rob Portman proposed a new amendment to the infrastructure deal to exclude proof of mining and sellers of software wallets and hardware wallets from the bill. The amendment proposed by crypto developers and proof of stake validators will still be subject to expanded reporting and taxation that some see as unworkable.

Wow. Sen. Warner and Portman are proposing a last minute amendment competing with the Wyden-Lummis-Toomey amendment. It is a disastrous. It only excludes proof-of-work mining. And it does nothing for software devs. Ridiculous!
Here is all it excludes: pic.twitter.com/FA7K6NU2s0
— Jerry Brito (@jerrybrito) August 5, 2021

A few hours later, Washington post-economic reporter JEff Stein tweeted that the White House is supporting their amendment, and if accurate, the White House won’t support a rival amendment proposed by Senator Cynthia Lumis, Ron Wyden, Pat Toomey which provided a much-broaded list of exemptions like any entity “validating distributed ledger transactions” that develop digital assets or their corresponding protocols:
“By clarifying the definition of broker, our amendment will ensure non-financial intermediaries like miners, network validators and other service providers are not subject to the reporting requirements specified in the bipartisan infrastructure package.”

Late breaking – White House is coming out formally in support of Warner-Portman-Sinema crypto amendment, implicitly against the Toomey-Wyden-Lummis plan
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) August 6, 2021

The amendment recieved widespread condemnation from the crypto community with most onlookers outlining that the proof of stake networks and software developers will be caught by the legislation. The petition demanding citizens pushed back against the amendment which already went live on FightforThefuture.org with the page slamming the law for expanding financial surveillance and harming innovation.

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