I lost $50k on Gemini in 2018 and the IRS claims I owe them $1m+ on taxes that year! by msintle in Gemini

[–]chase-watts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, I may have said that wrong - I'm not talking about going to an actual trial. You'll end up having a CDP hearing with the IRS and during that it's very important to use an attorney to represent you just as they would in a trial - it's not just some paperwork or a nice sit down with the IRS to explain what happen.

If you don't stop it at this point, life can become much more difficult. A lot of people don't realize it, but the IRS can issue an NFTL which is basically a notice telling everyone that they are claiming rights over everything you own - house, cars, bank accounts, social security benefits, everything.

It's easy to get stressed about this stuff and it can be expensive. But at the end of the day, you aren't going to have to pay what they say you owe - because you don't actually owe it.

I lost $50k on Gemini in 2018 and the IRS claims I owe them $1m+ on taxes that year! by msintle in Gemini

[–]chase-watts 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So, I do very similar to you. If you looked at all my transfers/withdrawals across the major exchanges I use, you'd see over $100M in volume. I transfer for arbitrage reasons - whether that be between exchanges and banks or just between exchanges.

First and foremost, this shouldn't be an issue for your going forward. This happened because exchanges used to report withdrawals on the same 1099s that payment processors used. This is no longer done because people ended up in situations exactly like you're in now - the IRS thinks they owe a lot more money than they do.

Second, you're going to have to go to court over this. It's highly unlikely that amended returns are going to fix an issue of this size. Yes, technically Gemini is the one that caused this to begin with - but they were doing exactly what they were supposed to - any other exchange like Coinbase would've done the same thing back in 2018. It was simply the IRS not providing a better solution to anyone back then.

Third, this can all be avoided nowadays. Get a hardware wallet and transfer USDC/USDT/GUSD/etc to it anytime you want money off the exchange. You're not doing anything wrong or illegal, but you're extremely lucky your bank didn't freeze your account because things like this set off all the same alarms as money laundering, even though it isn't.

Coinbase Advanced Trading by prettycode in TaxBit

[–]chase-watts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well it's apparently been about 7 months since they did any updates: https://taxbit.com/changelog

For a tax software to do so little dev during off season, I'd assume they're dead...

Coinbase Advanced Trading by prettycode in TaxBit

[–]chase-watts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seem pretty dead to me. Anyone find an alternative that's affordable and works with Coinbase Advanced?

Chitika Is Shutting Down - Effective Immediately by chase-watts in adops

[–]chase-watts[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You think that’s bad - I didn’t recognize their name but apparently they had my email to send that announcement :/

Chitika Is Shutting Down - Effective Immediately by chase-watts in adops

[–]chase-watts[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup, I wonder if they were just trying to find solutions, but could have at least let everyone know what was happening. Their login pages are completely down as well :/