# IRS takes out John Doe summons on crypto prime dealer SFOX to find tax cheat customers
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” IRS takes out John Doe summons on crypto prime dealer SFOX to find tax cheat customers “
The IRS filed suit in the Southern District of New York to receive a John Doe summons on SFOX as well. SFOX’s partner bank, M.Y. Safra, is headquartered in New York. The bank provides Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insured accounts for SFOX institutional traders.
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The IRS did not allege any wrongdoing on the part of SFOX, according to a Justice Department announcement, which mentioned the “inherently pseudo-anonymous aspect” of cryptocurrency transactions as one of the motivations for the summons. John Doe summonses have been used before by the IRS to obtain information from Circle, Coinbase and Kraken between 2018 and 2021.
The U.S. Congress has passed reporting requirements for digital assets that will go into effect in January 2024 for 2023 taxes, Taxbit’s Miles Fuller recalls. Those requirements may impact the IRS usage of John Doe summonses in the future.
1/ News has trickled in that the IRS has filed court petitions seeking to serve two more John Doe summons on crypto platform sFOX and its affiliated bank M.Y. Safra. Here is a quick summary of what is going on.
— Miles Fuller (@TaxBitMiles) August 11, 2022
Bloomberg cited an analysis released by Barclays in May that shows investors pay less than half the taxes they owe on cryptocurrency transactions. Bloomberg also carries information that SFOX has more than 175,000 users that have made $12 billion in transactions since 2015. SFOX was founded in 2014 with the backing of the Digital Currency Group, Blockchain Capital, Y Combinator and Airbnb co-founder Nathan Blecharczy.
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