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What follows is unlikely: If the majority of taxpayers were to pay in Bitcoin, revenues would be transparent, which is a step toward a free and open public aud
by greggyb 12y ago
What follows is unlikely:
If the majority of taxpayers were to pay in Bitcoin, revenues would be transparent, which is a step toward a free and open public audit of budgets.
- vertex-four 12y agoHow would revenues be transparent unless one or both parties tag the payment as "this is tax"? The payment processor needs to use a separate address for each incoming transaction, much the same as they do with their other clients now, so there's nothing there that marks a payment as being tax.
- jbooth 12y agoYou know that you can get the NH budget and audit it yourself, right now, right?
- greggyb 12y agoFree and open were the key points. Since the transactions are public they are independently verifiable. I am not accusing the state of lying or fraud, but this would be a check on that possibility. Again it is not likely that Bitcoin would ever make up enough of the tax revenue for the thought to even be relevant. It was only in response to the transparency question.