- A 114-page US House crypto tax package leaves out a mining and staking reward deferral provision.
- The bill includes rules on fees stablecoins lending wash sales and validator income.
A US House committee is set to consider a 114-page crypto tax package on Wednesday, but the measure does not include a provision that would have changed when miners and stakers pay tax on rewards. The Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act, H.R. 10357, was published with the Ways and Means Committee markup notice on Monday. The crypto tax package instead keeps the current timing under which rewards are taxable when received or brought under the recipient’s control. At the same time, the bill proposes several other digital asset tax changes covering validator income, transaction fees, stablecoins, lending, accounting rules and disclosure for past violations.
What the crypto tax package leaves out
The crypto tax package does not carry over the reward-timing language from Representative Mike Carey’s Tax Clarity for Mining and Staking Act, which was introduced in June. That earlier approach would have let taxpayers choose between reporting newly created tokens as income when received or treating them like self-created property and paying tax when they are sold.
Because that language is absent, mining and staking rewards would still be taxed when received or when they come under the recipient’s control. That means the tax event could happen before the tokens are sold for cash. The committee is scheduled to review the bill on Wednesday after the package was released on Monday alongside the markup notice.
Other parts of the crypto tax package
While the reward deferral provision is missing, the crypto tax package still includes some mining and staking related rules. It would classify income from blockchain validator activities as ordinary income. It would also set out whether that income is sourced inside or outside the United States.
The bill also says qualifying investment trusts could stake digital assets without losing their trust status. Beyond staking, the package would stop taxpayers from recognizing gains or losses when crypto is used to pay network or transaction fees of up to $10. It also proposes special tax treatment for qualifying US dollar stablecoins and says qualifying digital asset loans would not be treated as taxable sales.
Broader tax changes under the House bill
Additional provisions in the bill would create simplified accounting for widely traded crypto assets. The package would also extend wash-sale and constructive-sale rules to crypto, adding more defined treatment for those transactions under the proposed framework.
Another feature is a voluntary disclosure program for taxpayers who want to correct earlier digital asset tax violations. These provisions follow earlier work by the committee. In June, it circulated seven crypto tax drafts before a hearing on digital asset taxation, covering stablecoins, mining, staking and ways to reduce the tax-reporting burden linked to crypto transactions.
Industry response and timing
After those June drafts, the Blockchain Association, Crypto Council for Innovation and Digital Chamber called on Congress to pass Carey’s legislation as introduced. The groups said taxing rewards before they can be sold creates liquidity problems for miners and stakers. They also opposed an amendment that would have limited the deferral to five years.
The House bill is moving as the Senate considers whether to advance the CLARITY Act. That separate measure would determine how the US Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission divide oversight of the US crypto market. Source updates also said CLARITY Act odds fell to 16% as key Democrats resisted the GOP’s final offer, while Democrats pushed back with a counterproposal.
Conclusion
The latest House crypto tax package sets out a broad list of digital asset tax changes, but it leaves the mining and staking reward deferral issue untouched. As written, rewards would remain taxable when received or controlled rather than when sold. At the same time, the bill would address validator income, small transaction fees, stablecoins, digital asset lending, accounting methods, wash-sale rules and voluntary disclosure for earlier violations. The package appears at a moment when Congress is also weighing wider crypto market structure questions through the CLARITY Act, making tax and oversight policy active topics at the same time.
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