Joint panel with crypto, blockchain and fintech - can tax keep pace with technology - IBA Annual Conference
Sahel Assar, counsel in the firm's Tax section, will be speaking at the International Bar Association's Annual Conference in Miami. Sahel will be speaking on the "Joint panel with crypto, blockchain and fintech - can tax keep pace with technology."
New technologies have evolved to make it possible to store data in an unprecedented manner. New asset classes, like crypto currencies and non-fungible tokens, have been created. Can old law apply to such new asset classes? This panel will explain how tax laws of the brick-and-mortar time are being applied to transactions in the blockchain and crypto world and, where available, which new laws or guidelines have been enacted to address the ever-changing universe of the internet, soon potentially a meta-verse.