1437 sats \ 9 replies \ @BlokchainB 2 Oct 2022 \ on: Daily discussion thread
Read a bitcoin magazine article last night about paying rent in Bitcoin. So now I’m going to try and out. Going to offer my tenant a 5% discount if they pay the rent in Bitcoin. I wonder if they will take the incentive or just continue paying in fiat. Time will tell. If they do go the Bitcoin route think I will use zaprite for invoicing and track the accounting for tax purposes
Nice. That’s a great use of the platform. Let me know if you think there are additional features that would help with this.
We should have discount features soon which might help steer payers towards the BTC option.
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Bravo 👏. Now, if you have tenants that start paying in bitcoin, then you can be using a sovereign solution to receive the payments. And that makes the tax you pay voluntary. If you disclose everything and pay what they tell you, then no offense but fuck you for funding the war state beyond what you are forced to pay.
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😆 with IRS getting funded over the next five years to go after the middle class I am sure they will be chomping at the bit to audit Bitcoiners and if bitcoin rips up watch out. Even mobsters couldn’t defeat the tax man
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Let them audit bitcoiners. Bitcoiners that earn and spend bitcoin never touch dollars and are outside their purview.
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Non-USD income (including BTC and barter) is taxed exactly like USD income. If you earn $100k worth of BTC in a year, the IRS will claim you owe taxes as if you had been paid $100k in USD. And if you bought stuff with BTC, they might try to apply capital gains taxes, because bartering qualifies as selling; and capital gains taxes apply when you sell BTC.
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It's not taxed if they don't know you earned it. And they can't apply capital gains if they don't know you spent it.
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Sure, you can hide your BTC income, but the IRS will audit your tenants and soon discover how much your tenants are paying you. And if you refuse to pay taxes on that income, the IRS will take your real estate.
To be clear, I'm not pro-taxes. I'm just saying that tax-evasion is riskier than you are making it seem.
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They get their compliance through fear. But in reality, who cares if you get audited? The chances are low, even with 80 billion more dollars to shake people down. They are not known for being efficient with money (lol).
So they find something and you pay some fines. Been there done that. With real estate you have options, and like a small business, you have more control than an income tax.
The fear and propaganda need to be unwound. "Your duty", and "responsibility", "you owe", on the virtue side. "evasion", "fraud", "cheat" etc on bad side. It's all propaganda!
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They probably think it's a scam because they can't understand why you would give a 5% discount, haha
Or they are going to educate themselves now to make sure they are not getting scammed
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