As revealed in the budget 2022 by Joe Biden, cryptocurrency regulations are proposed in the very first budget from the White House after the elections. In accordance with a pair of documents published on Friday, the budget proposal includes several new crypto reporting requirements.

Joe Biden Proposed Budget Includes Cryptocurrency Regulations

As per the first budget published from the Biden administration on Friday, it includes two proposals that will be providing the Treasury Department additional requirements around what kind of information financial institutions must report to the International Revenue Service or IRS.

Discussing the first proposal that was mentioned in the White House Budget recently, it would stretch the broker information reporting with respect to the cryptocurrency assets.

In addition to this, the Green Book gave more context stating that the proposed alteration will be stretching the scope of information reporting by the brokers by allowing them to share information across different jurisdictions that have joined hands with the United States.

Proceeding further towards the document, it states:

“The proposal would require brokers, including entities such as U.S. crypto-asset exchanges and hosted wallet providers, to report information relating to certain passive entities and their substantial foreign owners when reporting with respect to crypto assets held by those entities in an account with the broker.”

Treasury Department Document Explanation for the Proposal

In accordance with the document released, the proposal would take effect for the returns filed after December 31, 2022.

The Treasury Department document explained further and said:

“Tax evasion using crypto assets is a rapidly growing problem. Since the industry is entirely digital, taxpayers can transact with offshore crypto exchanges and wallet providers without leaving the United States.”

In addition to this, the proposal addressed the reporting requirements and said:

“Separately, reporting requirements would apply in cases in which taxpayers buy crypto-assets from one broker and then transfer the crypto assets to another broker, and businesses that receive crypto assets in transactions with a fair market value of more than $10,000 would have to report such transactions.”