Bitcoin Jesus Roger Ver cam kết 49,9 triệu USD để giải quyết vụ việc trốn thuế tại Hoa Kỳ

The Huoxing Finance report states that on October 18, at the beginning of this month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a deferred prosecution agreement with "Bitcoin Jesus" Roger Ver, under which the charges of fraud and tax evasion against him will be dropped in exchange for a maximum fine of $49.9 million. As one of the earliest Bitcoin evangelists, Roger Ver purchased large quantities of Bitcoin in 2011 at a cost of less than $3 million. In February 2014, to avoid high tax liabilities, he acquired citizenship in the Caribbean nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis and renounced his U.S. citizenship the following month. At that time, he and his companies collectively held at least 131,000 Bitcoin, valued at over $70 million based on the prevailing price then. He believed that changing his nationality would allow him to leave behind America’s high tax burden. However, America’s stringent "expatriation tax" completely foiled his plan. Under U.S. tax law, qualifying expatriates must treat all their global assets as if they were sold on the day before expatriation and pay capital gains tax accordingly. Although Ver reported and paid $1.03 million in taxes, he failed to declare his personal Bitcoin holdings and significantly undervalued his company’s assets. A decade later, the IRS uncovered his fraudulent tax evasion (which is not subject to a statute of limitations), ultimately forcing him to pay up to $49.9 million in back taxes, penalties, and interest—nearly 48 times the amount he originally self-reported.