You raise an interesting, and scary AF point...
Without the 1031 Like Property Exchanges, AND I'M NOT A LAWYER THIS ISN'T LEGAL ADVICE ETC., OMG we'll be looking at AMT and capital gains taxes out the yin yang.
One hope - and it's not outlandish, since he is actually a pro-business, pro-innovation president, is that Mr Trump decides to invoke some sort of tax-favored status for crypto investments - which actually might make sense to do for bankers. E.g. banks can write off x amount of crypto/blockchain efforts...and then do the same for the individual crypto investor.
Or I could just move to St Kitts and call it a day.
I am a tax pro and I have written a number of articles about crypto and US tax laws. The SEC ruling On ICOs would trigger the exclusion around securities and other instruments for 1031 exchanges. Basically every transaction would trigger a capital gains tax event.
This sucks. I wouldn't say I'm surprised - it just sucks. Honestly I'm more upset that the ruling will now lock out anyone with a US IP from any ICO activity and push the entire blockchain technology sector out of the US.
The whole point of an ICO is to reduce costs of startup through crowdfunding. They need to expand the crowdfunding exemptions created from the 2012 JOBS act to include ICOs or th tech industry in America is toast.
You and I need to talk "offline" so to speak...
I do run a website called Metacoin, and we try to be like Coindesk, except we're one guy with no budget.
But I'd love to interview you there - you know, not to provide Legal advice, but...
@daveandewalle if you'd like, go ahead and shoot me a DM on steemit.chat (Rocketchat) or you can send me a friend request and a message on Discord at lpfaust#8848.