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Cryptocurrency users beware: IRS targets unknown taxpayers via John Doe summons
April 17, 2021
Earlier this month a federal court in the District of Massachusetts granted an order allowing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to serve a John Doe summons on a digital currency exchanger.