Not exact matches
Additionally, «certain
users known to the Internal Revenue Service» will also be excluded, a list of whom - which wasn't disclosed in the
filing» that will be provided to
Coinbase at some future date, according to the
filing.
The
filing is the latest legal twist in the long - running IRS effort to obtain
user information from
Coinbase.
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has
filed a motion asking the US Federal Court of Northern California to force
Coinbase to disclose the personal details of all US
users that have conducted Bitcoin trades between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2015.
Originally, the IRS wanted complete
user profiles, know - your - customer due diligence, documents regarding third - party access, transaction logs, records of payments processed, correspondence between
Coinbase and
Coinbase users, account or invoice statements, records of payments, and exception records, according to a court
filing.
But as bitcoin cash continued to look successful - and after many of its
users complained, some even
filing a lawsuit -
Coinbase did an about - face.
At the beginning of February an email was sent to
Coinbase users with a credit card on
file, encouraging them to switch to a debit card or bank account as their primary payment method to avoid incurring extra charges.
Since the tax agency
filed suit against them in federal court,
Coinbase has fought hard to protect its
users» privacy.
A class action document
filed at the United States District Court for the Northern District of California by Restis Law Firm on behalf of two
Coinbase users seeks reimbursement of the funds, including those sent involving now - expired email addresses.
A US
Coinbase user has
filed a class action lawsuit against
Coinbase, accusing the platform of insider non-public data disclosure regarding Bitcoin Cash trading.
The complaint was
filed by
Coinbase user and Arizona citizen Jeffrey Berk, represented by two law firms, in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Thursday, March 1.
News.Bitcoin.com The IRS will no longer target a wide - range of
Coinbase users via its information request, which it
filed on
Coinbase back in March.
The first of the two class actions launched against
Coinbase came on Thursday courtesy of lead plaintiff Jeffrey Berk, who, in an eighteen - page complaint
filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleged that
Coinbase staff (and possibly others) partook in insider trading with regards to its Bitcoin Cash (BCH) listing; forcing
Coinbase users to forgo «any opportunity to buy at a fair price» across the three - day window spanning December 19 through December 21.