A renewed effort to create a de minimis tax exemption for day-to-day cryptocurrency purchases has begun in the halls of the U.S. Congress. The Virtual Currency Tax Fairness Act of 2020, published Thursday by Washington, D.C.-based crypto advocacy group Coin Center, was introduced by Congresswoman Suzan Delbene of Washington and Congressman David Schweikert of Arizona. The bill addresses an issue that arose from the IRS's determination in 2014 that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies constitute a form of property – namely, that transactions both big and small trigger a taxable event that leaves payers on the hook for ... (full story)