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June 25, 2013, 03:09:25 PM |
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Bitpay's blog gives a good analysis of the exemption. As to your question - how bitcoiners can use the exemption to avoid regulation - I think that the answer is pretty straightforward: be a payment processor. Payment processors stand between merchants and their customers, facilitating the exchange and only the exchange of payment for goods or services.
PS: Bitpay, the IRS has little to do with money transmission regulations. The IRS is concerned with a separate, but parallel, set of laws in the Internal Revenue Code. The IRS requires certain reporting under those laws, but not to prevent money laundering like the Bank Secrecy Act. It's to prevent tax evasion by payors and payees. Launder away from the IRS' perspective, so long as you pay your taxes. The IRS provisions are also much less burdensome than the BSA and Patriot Act.
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