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Federal 1099-B reporting for private sales of gold and silver depends on the metal form and quantity: certain listed bullion and coins become reportable only when sold in specified minimum quantities ...
Private trades of gold and silver require careful documentation because dealers must file Form 1099‑B for certain sales and Form 8300 for large cash payments, and taxpayers must support cost basis and...
The available analyses show that the December 2024 review identifies the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as the , a finding repeated across two summaries of the same December 2024 piece . ...
Federal law creates two distinct reporting regimes that matter for private sales of gold and silver in Washington: cash-transaction reporting (Form 8300) for payments of $10,000 or more, and dealer re...
Jasmine Crockett's public record shows a nuanced, transactional stance toward cryptocurrency: she has accepted significant financial support from crypto-aligned donors and super PACs while also sponso...
Washington state recently rewrote how dealers and sellers of precious metals are treated for state taxes: effective Jan. 1, 2026, sales of “precious metal bullion” and “monetized bullion” are taxable ...
Bitcoin’s classification is by major U.S. regulators, but that label coexists with ongoing legal and regulatory debate about how different agencies and jurisdictions should treat various crypto produc...
No single document in the provided reporting ties a formal program called “Project 2025” to a named short-list of cryptocurrencies; however, across 2025–26 industry and policy reporting several asset ...
The IRS 2025 instructions make clear that Form 1099‑B for precious metals is triggered only when a sale is of a metal in a form that the CFTC has approved for delivery against a regulated futures cont...
The IRS’s 2025 Form 1099‑B instructions say dealers must file for sales of certain precious‑metal forms that appear on the agency’s Reportable Items List; industry sources consistently identify a shor...
Form 1099‑B remains the primary information return dealers use to report certain sales of bullion and numismatic coins to the IRS, but 2025 IRS guidance narrowed some reportable categories and set spe...
Private individuals who sell gold or silver to another private party generally are not the parties required to issue Form 1099-B or Form 1099‑S; the IRS and industry guidance focus reporting obligatio...
Available sources show that many official institutions routinely publish transcripts, press releases and video archives — for example university registrar pages explain how to order official transcrip...
Prediction markets and sportsbooks that publish odds for U.S. elections in December 2025 include decentralized crypto markets like Polymarket, regulated event exchanges such as Kalshi, comparison/aggr...
Governments and regulators use a mix of criminal statutes (conspiracy, wire fraud), financial rules (AML/KYC, BSA reporting) and targeted advisories to disrupt financial networks that harm communities...
Whistleblowers often receive statutory confidentiality: federal statutes and agency policies say agencies will generally keep a reporter’s identity non‑public, but those protections have defined limit...
U.S. rules distinguish two enforcement streams that can hit below-threshold or “structured” gold transactions: cash-transaction reporting under Form 8300 (Bank Secrecy Act) and dealer information retu...
The 2025 continuing resolution (CR) package is not a single uniform text but a set of enacted and proposed measures that, in different versions, contain a mix of appropriations extensions and targeted...