The deadline to file taxes is just over one month away, and some might be including cryptocurrency earnings for the very first time. Lisa Greene-Lewis, a tax expert at TurboTax, explains what investors need to be aware of this season.
"The way you use it is the way it's taxed," says Greene-Lewis who has noticed an increased demand for clarification on this type of reporting. "There's more questions coming up as more people are trading."
Greene-Lewis says that, if one is mining cryptocurrency, it becomes taxable when the asset is recognized.
Federal authorities have released more details and unsealed charges in the theft of more than 2 million dimes earlier this year from a tractor-trailer that had picked up the coins from the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.
An off-duty pilot riding in the extra seat in the cockpit of a Horizon Air passenger jet tried to shut down the engines in midflight and had to be subdued by the crew, according to a pilot flying the plane.