No I understand what you’re saying. I guess I’m approaching it from the idea that it’s more than likely a novelty in the beginning, you won’t have a lot of sales, and the inventory costs would be covered by the gross profit of the other items. This would allow the store owner the ability to “bank” the sats for future use therefore converting cash to the “harder” asset of sats.
It certainly easier for a service business to get to a bitcoin standard since most service business revenue is “self generated “ and therefore has very little cost.
But the idea still stands, the collection of bitcoin for a good or service would generate ordinary income , creates a basis for a future sale, and the future sale would generate a capital gains tax or benefit based on the holding period.
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Yes from that angle I would agree, just to help the network. I would consider it for sure. In my case, we provide lighting design services (layouts, consultations, photometrics, heatmaps, etc.) and accepting for these services is a no brainer. A few months ago I posted if anyone was interested but had no takers. Could try again in the future, would be a great experience!
The tax laws have to change for it to truly become a medium of exchange.
At the moment, if the goal is to accumulate BTC it’s probably easier to just use some fiat profits and buy BTC directly and hold on the balance sheet. A tiny $MSTR if you will.