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New Bill Would Require People to Disclose Cryptocurrency Holdings at the Border

10-7-2017 < Blacklisted News 53 113 words
 

A new bill introduced in late May in the United States Senate would require people entering or leaving the United States with $10,000 or more in cryptocurrency to declare their holdings to US Customs and Border Protection agents. The bill has been introduced in the 115th Congress as S.1241, and known as the Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017. Currently this regulation is already applied to cash and money orders. The bill’s prime sponsor is Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa. The bill has some bipartisan support, co-sponsors of the bill include Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, and Republican John Cornyn of Texas.

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