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The Dubious Anonymity Of Virtual Currency Transactions

The Dubious Anonymity Of Virtual Currency Transactions

So if you are looking to hide your financial misdeeds, you should be doing it yourself rather than using exchanges.  With Bitcoin, still by far the most popular virtual currency by market capitalization, although not transaction volume, you have to deal with the reality that every transaction ever is preserved in the blockchain and available for anybody to look at.

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Michael Jackson’s Estate Mostly Prevails In Valuation Fight With IRS

Michael Jackson’s Estate Mostly Prevails In Valuation Fight With IRS

Round numbers going into trial the disputed assets were valued at $5 million by the Estate and $482 million by the IRS.  Judge Holmes at $111 million leaned toward the Estate, but it was not a real blowout.  The top estate tax rate in 2009 was 45% so the final check the Estate writes will probably still be, as we say, a number.  The notice of deficiency that prompted the petition that got the litigation rolling had much more dramatic adjustments.  They totaled over $1.1 billion with image and likeness adjusted upward by $434 million, NHT II by $469 million and NHT III by $58 million.

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.