NFT Trader因報告近1300萬美元的利潤而面臨最高6年的監禁

45歲的韋倫·威爾科克斯（Waylon Wilcox）承認在2021年和2022年納稅年度提交虛假所得稅申報表。

A non-fungible token (NFT) trader could face up to six years in prison after pleading guilty to offenses related to nearly $13 million in profits from trading CryptoPunks, the US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania said.

賓夕法尼亞州中部檢察官辦公室說，一位不可殺死的代幣（NFT）交易員在對交易加密貨幣的近1300萬美元的利潤認罪後，可能面臨最高六年的監禁。

Waylon Wilcox, 45, admitted to filing false income tax returns for the 2021 and 2022 tax years, according to an April 9 plea agreement. The former CryptoPunk investor pleaded guilty to two counts of filing false individual income tax returns, federal prosecutors said in an April 11 press release.

根據4月9日的認罪協議，現年45歲的韋倫·威爾科克斯（Waylon Wilcox）承認，在2021年和2022年的納稅年度提交虛假所得稅申報表。聯邦檢察官在4月11日的新聞稿中說，這位前加密郵政投資者對提交虛假個人所得稅申報表的兩項罪名認罪。

Back in April 2022, Wilcox filed a false individual income tax return for the tax year 2021, which purposely undervalued his income tax by roughly $8.5 million and reduced his tax due by approximately $2.1 million.

早在2022年4月，威爾科克斯（Wilcox）就2021納稅年度提交了虛假的個人所得稅申報表，其故意將其所得稅低估了約850萬美元，並將其稅款減少了約210萬美元。

In October 2023, Wilcox filed another false individual tax income return for the fiscal year of 2022, purposely undervaluing his income tax by an estimated $4.6 million and reducing his tax due by nearly $1.1 million.

2023年10月，威爾科克斯（Wilcox）在2022財政年度提交了另一份虛假的個人稅收收入申報表，故意將其所得稅低於估計的460萬美元，並將其稅款減少近110萬美元。

The trader bought and sold 97 pieces of the CryptoPunk NFT collection, the industry’s largest NFT collection, with a $687 million market capitalization.

這位交易員買賣了97件Cryptopunk NFT Collection，這是該行業最大的NFT系列，其市值為6.87億美元。

In 2021, Wilcox sold 62 CryptoPunk NFTs for a gain of about $7.4 million but reported significantly less on his taxes. In 2022, he sold 35 more CryptoPunks for $4.9 million. The Department of Justice said Wilcox intentionally selected “no” when asked if he had engaged in digital asset transactions on both filings.

2021年，威爾科克斯（Wilcox）出售了62個加密郵政NFT，收益約為740萬美元，但據報導稅收較少。 2022年，他以490萬美元的價格銷售了35個加密貨幣。司法部說，當被問及他是否在這兩個文件上從事數字資產交易時，威爾科克斯有意選擇“否”。

“IRS Criminal Investigation is committed to unraveling complex financial schemes involving virtual currencies and NFT transactions designed to conceal taxable income,” Philadelphia Field Office Special Agent in charge Yury Kruty said, adding:

費城·克魯蒂說：“ IRS刑事調查致力於揭開涉及虛擬貨幣和NFT交易的複雜金融計劃，旨在掩蓋應稅收入。”

The case was investigated by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Criminal Investigation Department.

該案由國稅局（IRS）和刑事調查部調查。

Crypto tax rules gain traction

加密稅收規則獲得牽引力

Crypto tax laws attracted interest worldwide in June 2024 after the IRS issued a new crypto regulation making US crypto transactions subject to third-party tax reporting requirements for the first time.

在美國國稅局發布了一項新的加密法規後，加密稅法在2024年6月引起了全球利益，這使我們首次受第三方稅收報告要求。

Since January, centralized crypto exchanges (CEXs) and other brokers have been required to report the sales and exchanges of digital assets, including cryptocurrencies.

自1月以來，要求集中的加密交易所（CEXS）和其他經紀人報告包括加密貨幣在內的數字資產的銷售和交易所。

On April 10, US President Donald Trump signed a joint congressional resolution to overturn a Biden administration-era legislation that would have required decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols to also report transactions to the IRS.

4月10日，美國總統唐納德·特朗普（Donald Trump）簽署了一項共同的國會決議，以推翻拜登政府時代的立法，該立法將需要分散的財務（DEFI）協議，以便向IRS報告交易。

Set to take effect in 2027, the so-called IRS DeFi broker rule would have expanded the tax authority’s existing reporting obligations to include DeFi platforms, necessitating them to disclose gross proceeds from crypto sales, including information regarding taxpayers.

所謂的IRS Defi Broker規則將在2027年生效，將擴大稅務機關現有的報告義務，以包括Defi平台，因此必須使他們披露加密貨幣銷售的總收入，包括有關納稅人的信息。

However, some crypto regulatory advisers believe that stablecoin and crypto banking legislation should be a priority above new tax legislation in the US.

但是，一些加密監管顧問認為，Stablecoin和Crypto銀行立法應優先考慮美國的新稅法立法。

A “tailored regulatory approach” for areas including securities laws and removing “obstacles in banking” is a priority for US lawmakers with “more upside” for the industry, Mattan Erder, general counsel at layer-3 decentralized blockchain network Orbs, told Cointelegraph.

第3層分散的區塊鍊網絡球員總法律顧問Mattan Erder告訴Cointelegraph。