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.
Union leaders and Hollywood studios reached a tentative agreement Sunday to end a historic screenwriters strike after nearly five months, though no deal is yet in the works for striking actors.
The Week's Top Stories is a guided tour through the biggest market stories of the week, from winning stocks to brutal dips to the facts and forecasts generating buzz on Wall Street. This week we're highlighting, Microsoft and Activision Blizzard, the UAW strike, Fox Corp. and News Corp. shake-up, interest rate decision, and Cisco scooping up Splunk.