Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Law Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Banking and Finance Law

The University of Akron

Journal

IRS

Publication Year

Articles 1 - 2 of 2

Full-Text Articles in Law

Imposing A Deadline On The Irs: Artificial Intelligence Tries To Beat 'Starcraft' While The Irs Tries To Regulate Virtual Currency, Paul C. Nylen Jul 2019

Imposing A Deadline On The Irs: Artificial Intelligence Tries To Beat 'Starcraft' While The Irs Tries To Regulate Virtual Currency, Paul C. Nylen

Akron Law Review

Virtual currencies demanded serious attention in 2017 due to public interest, media attention, and investor appetite. With this increased attention on virtual currencies comes significant business, legal, and tax risks. This article serves as a launching pad for those tax risks, and attempts to predict how the IRS will react. By focusing on the IRS’s treatment of virtual currency as property, as well as discussing other tax issues like Foreign Bank Account Reporting (FBAR) compliance and like-kind exchanges under Internal Revenue Code section 1031, this article highlights the difficulty the IRS will have in regulating the ever-expanding world of virtual …


Dickman And Code Section 7872: The Death Knell To Interest-Free And Below-Market Loans, Beverly Mcdonel Jul 2015

Dickman And Code Section 7872: The Death Knell To Interest-Free And Below-Market Loans, Beverly Mcdonel

Akron Law Review

This comment will discuss the history of interest-free and below-market rate loans, including recent changes in the law from Dickman and the Internal Revenue Code (Code) revision in 1984. In addition, some of the tax planning alternatives to interest-free loans will be briefly examined.