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The idea behind this project is good but it will contradict the purpose which bitcoin was made, no central authority and the likes purposes behind bitcoin creations will be defeated.
Bitcoin should be tax free.

The function of BitcoinFastTax is to enable the average person or company to simply and easily calculate their bitcoin taxes, which can't help but spur adoption because many legal uses for bitcoins are inhibited by the complex tax laws surrounding them. You are not in any way being further coerced into paying taxes by the mere presence of BFT. We are not an instrument of the IRS, nor are we opposing the spirit of bitcoin, we are simply a tool to help people calculate their bitcoin-related taxes if they need to, and so they know what the IRS knows. I know it may seem that our site complements the agenda of taxation, but that's a bit like blaming the weather report for the hurricane.

blaming the weather report for the hurricane Grin

very funny however it seems your tool could be more useful to big exchangers that converts bitcoin to USD

I believe anybody, individual or company, that uses bitcoins to purchase goods or services from companies/websites that must report under FinCEN (http://www.fincen.gov/), which is pretty much every site imaginable, will invariably have to calculate their bitcoin capital gains/losses. This is a fact, and there is little doubt that the IRS will eventually send each and every single person that uses bitcoins, a bill for overdue taxes. I see many people in denial about the ability and/or legitimacy of the IRS's intent to proactively and retroactively pursue taxes for your bitcoin trades, and to date the IRS has been slow to encompass and enforce said taxation, but make no mistake, if you use or have ever used bitcoins on FinCEN-reporting websites, your entire wallet of addresses has been publicly exposed in the blockchain, your identity is known to the IRS, and your tax liability is deterministic, and unless an unlikely amnesty is granted, the IRS may soon send you a bill for bitcoin profits as far back as 2009! What's more, even if you never convert your bitcoins to fiat currency and just buy and sell stuff with bitcoins, from the perspective of the IRS, this is called 'bartering', and there is an implied conversion to fiat that is taxed in the same way as if you actually converted to cash first.

I entirely sympathize with the interpretation of injustice this taxation represents to most people, especially from the 'new world order' root perspective that bitcoin's popularity originally surged, but let's keep one important thing at the focus: there is nothing the IRS can do to remove the original attributes of anonymity of bitcoin, unless you expose yourself. Thus, bitcoins have evolved into a dichotomy, 1) the original, underground, and still very present anonymous ungoverned currency, and 2) the evolving taxable, exposed, and legitimized 'property' version of bitcoin (like a stock). The IRS owns the second, but can't touch the first. You have full control over which of these two aspects of bitcoin you participate in, therefore, use bitcoins in the manner most appropriate for your needs. Ultimately though, it's increasingly more likely you'll start to use at least some bitcoins on FinCEN sites, thus, the BFT website will be an essential tool for you.

Now i understood your tool better and i guess you deserves some donations, why not consider including your btc in your signature?