As the digital asset market continues to mature, more taxpayers may be contemplating blessing their favorite charitable organizations with gifts of cryptocurrency. Beneficiaries unfamiliar with digital assets may find it challenging to properly report any of these types of donations. Likewise, taxpayers will need to ensure that they properly value and substantiate any contributions or potentially risk their charitable deductions being denied. This course will provide a brief overview of digital assets. This will be followed by a discussion of the rules regarding the documentation required when claiming a charitable contribution of digital assets. This course will also cover recent IRS publications and cases discussing taxpayers whose deductions of digital assets charitable gifts were scrutinized.
**Please Note: If you need credit reported to the IRS for this IRS approved program, please download the IRS CE request form on the Course Materials Tab and submit to kori.herrera@acpen.com.
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Discuss what constitutes digital assets
Determine the differences between cryptocurrency and NFTs
Be able to identify the IRS forms needed to report digital asset contributions
Understand how to properly establish the value of the contribution
Know the differences in required substantiation based on the amount of the contribution
Understand the latest rulings by the Treasury Department and courts on these contributions
Differences between cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens (NFTs)
IRS Notice 2014-12
Tax implications of contributing digital assets
Gift tax rules for donating, gifting or bequeathing cryptocurrency and NFTs
Substantiating charitable contributions of digital assets
Traps for the unwary
Materials are generally available 3 days in advance of an event. Once you have downloaded the manual, we are unable to cancel your registration.
6407250
Registration is open through 06/16.
10:00am to 11:49am
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