Ah, okay, thanks. But, doesn't that make Bitcoin a little more regulation-friendly? Inability to issue receipts is one thing that hobbles taxation.
Where does this nonsense come from. The burden of maintaining books is on the comapny. Saying "sorry we can't issue receipts so we don't pay taxes" is stupid. Sorry it just makes no fucking sense. The IRS will say ok then since you can't prove your books, or show your revenue or expenses we are simply seizing EVERYTHING. Companies maintain books so they can show the LIMIT of their revenue and profit and thus limit the amount of taxes they pay.
Of course even without a payment protocol companies are required to maintain books which can be audited. It doesn't matter if you take payments in cash, gold bullion, pounds of marijuana, or Bitcoins. The lack of a payment protocol doesn't make it impossible to issue a receipt, it makes it impossible to know that (as an example) when you are "sending coins to MtGox" that you are ACTUALLY sending coins to MtGox and not some hacker who infected your browser and changed the address you see on the screen with his address.
Simple version: The store chain 7-11 does tens of BILLIONS of dollars worth of sales in cash. Do you think a lack of cryptographically secured payments suddenly makes their entire operation tax free. Sorry Mr. IRS agent we erased our cash books so we can't show how much in sales or profits we had and thus are opting to not pay taxes. Failure to keep accurate books means the IRS gets to estimate what revenue, profit, and taxes are owed and trust me they will be very "generous" in their estimates.
I mean does that even make logical sense to you?