Kraken calls IRS demands for critical exchange user information an unjustified treasure hunt.
Crypto exchange Kraken is taking the fight against the United States Internal Revenue Service and its demand to present critical exchange user information to the court. The exchange deemed IRS’s demand for customer information as an “unjustified treasure hunt.”
The crypto exchange has requested a federal court in San Francisco to intervene in the issue and ask IRS to back off,Bloomberg. Kraken’s pushback against IRS comes in reaction to the agency’s February summons demanding additional user information to identify Kraken accounts that did at least $20,000 of cryptocurrency trading in any single year, between 2016 and 2020.
The exchange, in its request, cited Coinbase’s case from 2017 and said that the tax agency has gone far beyond the rules set by U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley. In the Coinbase case, the agency scaled back its initial demand after Coinbase’s continuous refusal.
The Kraken lawyers claimed that the IRS has gone"far beyond" its intrusive summons, and its demands for customer information are not justified. Kraken joined Coinbase in its efforts to push back against growing regulatory scrutiny by American regulators. Coinbase is currently fighting its own battle against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over
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