Most crypto bros think that if they have not been tax compliant in their jurisdiction they are not able to cash-out. This is wrong.

Sure there is the automatic exchange of information between your tax residency and your bank account, however if you plan on becoming tax compliant through a voluntary tax disclosure while you are preparing your compliance documentation for the bank.

Amongst the crypto community it is very normal for people to have not declared their taxes, especially if they started early. As back in 2011, most people were not treating it as a serious investment most did not know where it would be today.

When you are introduced to a private bank by a trusted third party, the bank is comfortable with you getting your new tax residency documentation after your account is opened or if you are becoming tax compliant through a voluntary tax disclosure as long as you are about to or in the process of becoming tax compliant you can open and cash-out before the taxes are due.

Since the automatic exchange of information era, Swiss banks require some form of tax conformity from clients. What’s poorly understood is what “conformity” can mean in practice. At certain institutions and this depends heavily on the bank, the jurisdiction, and the specific facts it does not have to mean “every past year already settled.” It can mean the client is demonstrably in the process of becoming compliant: tax counsel engaged, a voluntary disclosure or regularization initiated, or a residency change properly sequenced, all with a paper trail.

I’ve seen onboarding with Swiss private banks happen in parallel with a disclosure or a change in tax residency. Many people choose more tax friendly jurisdictions such as Monaco or Dubai. I have written a post about obtaining residency in Monaco with crypto origin wealth (private banks help you obtain residency):

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monaco/s/6Ey0AJ5P04

Remember that even fully compliant holders struggle here everyone knows the frozen-funds and closed-account stories from retail off-ramps (CEX to retail bank at large volumes). That’s precisely why people go to private banks, and why they don’t show up empty-handed. The approach that gets through compliance committee at the bank is a professionally prepared source-of-wealth file: chronological origin-of-wealth narrative, wallet lists with proof of control, independent forensic screening, surviving records with gaps explained, where relevant, a concrete, documented process for fixing a tax situation that isn’t currently in order as opposed to a vague intention to sort it out someday..

Important note: this is not “you don’t need to pay tax,” and it varies enormously by country and institution. None of it is tax, legal, or banking advice this situation requires actual advisers in the actual jurisdictions involved.

submitted by /u/alt-co [link] [comments]r/CryptoCurrencyRead More

You might also be interested in reading Iran to allow crypto payments for international trade: Report.