The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has assembled a team of 10 investigators for international criminal investigations and to find scammers who use cryptocurrency, Bloomberg reports Thursday, February 8.

The head of the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, Don Fort, said the team will work with international criminal organizations to investigate unauthorized exchanges:

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According to Fort, the group is focusing for the moment on how crypto users are changing their crypto currency.

"We know you want to get your money out at some point."

In March 2014, the IRS began issuing guidelines for the taxation of cryptocurrency, which th they were treated as property with capital gains or losses in capital for tax purposes. However, only 802 people complied by generating their own cryptocurrency gains or losses for their taxes in 2015.

The IRS faced obstacles this year trying to get the "big money". access through a user information command on the coinbase crypto. Their initial claim for records of more than 500,000 users was rejected by the courts and reduced to only 14,000 users who reportedly had a high commercial activity of more than $ 20,000

. government agencies and crypto exchanges that have a commitment to protecting the privacy of users.

A Cointelegraph expert blog published in December 2017 raised the possibility of a tax amnesty for those who have not declared earnings in digital currency. to an IRS program for filing income from undisclosed offshore accounts.