To ensure this, the Biden administration is imposing reporting requirements on crypto platforms Americans file accurate taxes on digital asset transactions.
On Friday, the US Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) finalized rules requiring crypto brokers to report digital asset sales and exchanges to the IRS beginning in the 2025 calendar year.
The regulations apply to brokers who handle digital assets sold by their clients. These include operators of digital asset trading platforms, certain wallet providers, digital asset kiosks and certain digital asset payment processors (PDAPs).
The IRS says the initial focus on these entities will cover the largest number of taxpayers because most digital asset transactions today occur through these brokers.
Say IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel,
“These regulations are an important part of the larger effort to ensure high-income individual tax compliance. We must ensure that digital assets are not used to hide taxable income, and these final regulations will improve non-compliance detection in the high-risk digital asset space.”
Real estate professionals must also report the fair market value of digital assets used in real estate transactions with closing dates on or after January 1, 2026.
Transactions involving stablecoins, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and payments for digital assets are exempt from reporting requirements if they do not exceed de minimis thresholds.
Decentralized or non-custodial brokers are not subject to the reporting requirements, but a different set of final rules will be adopted for these platforms.
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