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Carsten Legaard's avatar

In a fiat accounting system a business is supposed to have one bank account only. The argument being you have to align cash flow with cash balance.

In real life you could track BTC payments in an Excel sheet or a notebook. By the end of the fiscal year you could count those sales and report them as surplus savings meant for taxing in the future.

This way you would not have to exchange BTC into dollars - which would cause immediate taxing of eventual profit or loss.

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Herman Mills's avatar

A huge supporter of any alternative to FIAT and anything that disintermediate the parasitic banking cartel. The one issue I see here is how will the tax department look upon these transactions outside of the normal payment system. How does your accounting software and integrated POS and stock systems handle BTC. How do you find and track payments and reconcile your books between different payment methods and how do you protect your business from the wild swings in value? How do you ensure that what was a profitable transaction today is still profitable if BTC falls overnight and how do you report the gains/profit if things go the other way. I like the idea but the devil is in the details

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