The crypto community is running against an <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-law/senators-eye-cryptocurrency-taxes-to-fund-infrastructure-plan" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">amendment</a> to the United States infrastructure plan that would maintain strict reporting requirements for developers and authenticators while sparing miners. White House has recently reported that only minor alterations will be supported to crypto tax proposals. 
<h2>White House Supports only Peripheral Alterations to Crypto Tax Proposal</h2>
The crypto community is pushing back against emendations to the crypto provisions of the <a href="https://www.cryptoknowmics.com/news/us-senate-proposes-crypto-taxes-to-fund-550-billion-infrastructure-deal/">infrastructure plan</a> of the White House which is looking forward to raising $28 billion for infrastructure funding through lengthened taxation on crypto transactions.

Senators Mark Warner and Rob Portman proposed a last-minute amendment on August 6 to the infrastructure deal to ostracize proof-of-mining and sellers of hardware and software wallets from the bill.

In addition to this, it should be noted that the wording of the amendment suggests that crypto developers and proof-of-stake validators would still be subject to stretching reporting and taxation.

This clearly means that the White House is not widely supporting the rival amendment <a href="https://www.cryptoknowmics.com/news/senate-infrastructure-bill-exempt-bitcoin-miners-from-new-tax-rules/">proposed</a> by Senators Cynthia Lummis, Ron Wyden, and Pat Toomey. Toomey said this on Twitter:

“By clarifying the definition of the broker, our amendment will ensure non-financial intermediaries like miners, network validators and other service providers are not subject to the reporting requirements specified in the bipartisan infrastructure package.”
<h2>Crypto Community Criticizes the Minimal Amendment</h2>
Moreover, it should be noted that a petition demanding citizens push back against the amendment has already gone live on FightForTheFuture.org. The page was found condemning the law for dramatically expanding financial surveillance and mistreating innovation.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) published an article on August 2, criticizing the amendment for including developers who do not control digital assets on behalf of users in its scope and it said:

“The mandate to collect names, addresses, and transactions of customers means almost every company even tangentially related to cryptocurrency may suddenly be forced to surveil their users.”

White House Reportedly Supports only Minor Alterations to Crypto Tax Proposal 

The White House has reported that only minor alterations will be supported to the crypto tax proposal that has been released recently.

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White House Reportedly Supports only Minor Alterations to Crypto Tax Proposal

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