Bridging the digital gap: How tax fits into cryptocurrencies and blockchain development

Amelia Schwanke

March 23, 2017

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The world is on the cusp of a major tax revolution as cryptocurrencies and online distributed ledger technologies, such as blockchain, push financial systems from the physical world to online. Amelia Schwanke speaks to the experts in a roundtable discussion about the tax implications and usage of digital currencies and blockchain.

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Amelia Schwanke worked at ITR between 2015 and 2017

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