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Just like how it works for stock grants unless you inherited them.


Yep, not just stock grants, but anything. For example you find a bug in an airline, and report it and they compensate you as a thank you with 200k airline miles... you now owe income tax on those miles.


> you now owe income tax on those miles.

How do you calculate the tax on that?


Based on the value of the "item" for example airlines will assign a value to these miles ie (100,000 miles worth $1200) - or something like that. Otherwise, I don't know. I'm not an accountant/cpa, but I know that this stuff is taxable whether it's tokens or ketchup packets.




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