The US Treasury is now going after the cryptocurrency users. As part of the Biden administration’s proposal to strengthen tax compliance, those making transfers of at least $10,000 of crypto are to be reported to the Internal Revenue Service.

“As with cash transactions, businesses that receive crypto assets with a fair-market value of more than $10,000 would also be reported on,” the Treasury Department said in a report on tax-enforcement proposals released Thursday.

Cash transactions of more than $10,000 are already subject to IRS reporting requirements.

While the regulators have yet to provide clear guidelines regarding the regulation of the crypto sector, they are all set to take advantage of the sector's massive gains.

It was in 2020 that the IRS included cryptocurrency on Form 1040, the individual tax return.

The comprehensive reporting is necessary “to minimize the incentives and opportunity to shift income out of the new information reporting regime,” said the Treasury.

According to the IRS, those at the top end of the income distribution avoid taxes through sophisticated strategies such as offshoring, creating complex partnership structures, or moving taxable assets into the crypto economy.

As such, the reporting regime would “cover foreign financial institutions and crypto asset exchanges and custodians.”

And while crypto is a small share of current business transactions, the report says crypto transactions are “likely to rise in importance in the next decade.”

The new reporting regime would go into effect in 2023 to give financial institutions time to prepare for the new requirements, the Treasury said.

Media headlines calling today's Treasury proposal a "crackdown" on crypto are beyond silly.

It's an incremental increase in the number of transaction reports filed by some companies starting in 2023.

I oppose it on policy grounds, but as things go, it's a rather tame proposal.

— Jake Chervinsky (@jchervinsky) May 20, 2021

Bitcoin had a rough week. Falling about 54% from its ATH, it continues to chop and is now hovering around $41k.

“There was some major overreaction,” said Kristin Smith, executive director of the Blockchain Association trade group.

“For those of us that believe we should try to keep crypto on par with how cash is treated – this does just that.”

To boost tax-payment compliance, President Joe Biden’s administration is also calling for banks to report on account flows.

Overall, the administration's proposed measure, which goes beyond crypto, is expected to raise $700 billion in additional revenue over a decade.

The Treasury Department had already been working on proposed regulations to require brokers to report information to the IRS on their customers and the cryptocurrency sales they facilitate.

“Cryptocurrency already poses a significant detection problem by facilitating illegal activity broadly including tax evasion.”

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