Ashlea Ebeling
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first heard Jul 2022
last heard Feb 2025
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Estate Planning Via Text or Video. What Counts as a Will? · 20 Dec 2024
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And then another one called Trust and Will has simple wills.
These are wills for people with fairly simple situations.
And they actually allow electronic wills in the states that allow them, and they have a digital storage vault on their website.
Absolutely.
First of all, they have like thousands of people who are using the basic electronic wills and the pure digital wills.
And they say that they're getting more and more requests.
And it is particularly from younger people because they say, why do I have to go to a lawyer's office to do this?
Why do I need to do it on paper?
IRS enforcement is real.
Since 2019, the IRS has required all taxpayers to check a box on their tax return to say yes or no, whether they've received or disposed of a digital asset.
They're stepping up oversight and tax audits in criminal cases are happening more often.
Well, that basically means that crypto rules work a lot like stock rules.
The rules for gains and losses.
If you sell crypto for more than you bought it for, you'll owe tax on the gain.
If you sell it at a loss, you can use those losses to offset current gains or future gains.
And of course, now with Bitcoin nearing 100,000, most people are in the gain territory.
They need to know that IRS enforcement is real.
Since 2019, the IRS has required all taxpayers to check a box on their tax return to say yes or no, whether they've received or disposed of a digital asset.
They're stepping up oversight and tax audits in criminal cases are actually happening more often.
I spoke with several tax lawyers who said the real risk is for sophisticated investors with big gains.
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