Okay so you trade more privacy for a lack of auditabilty. Those who can use Bitcoin privately have zero use case for moenro.

Yeah; I hear what you are saying... I was thinking about the adjacent issue. I was focusing primarily about the decision a person has to make about complying [or not complying] with tax laws. Using Monero doesn't make that particular decision go away; Monero is under the same tax regulation as all cryptocurrencies. ---- Monero's usefulness to the person who decides not to report crpytocurrency transactions to the taxing rulers is a slightly different topic.