A question regarding this new cryptocurrency trend.
Now, with more traditional cryptos, you buy 'x' amount of coins, you hold them for a couple years without touching them, then when the value goes up
to your liking you sell them.
At that point, since it's been a couple years you will incur long term capital gains tax in the appropriate rate for the amount gained.
Fairly straightforward.
However with Safemoon, and a whole new ton of cryptos, (I have holdings in 5 of them currently) you gain free tokens constantly added to your wallet
every time someone buy, sells, or I think even transfers.
In the 10 days I've been in safemoon, this has gotten me around 7 some million free tokens. By the end of the year, it could be upwards of a 100
million tokens.
It's my understanding that recieving tokens counts as a taxable event by the IRS, if so, does anyone have an idea how this works?
Even if I hodl, and dont touch my wallet am I going to be getting hit with taxable income for all these free tokens at some value next tax filling
year?
If so, at what value? The value at when they were received? On dec 31? An average value through the year?
If the value of one of these cryptos start to rise significantly, but not enough to make one wish to cash out, we could be hit with large unexpected
tax Bills for something we havent even seen actual payouts on yet.
Its mind boggling to even think of how messed up this could get at tax time for a few hundred dollar drop into a high risk crypto.
edit on 4 26
2021 by caterpillage because: (no reason given)