This is a legal issue no one has been able to answer me about
If you win bitcoin with investment, it's easy to declare
What about bitcoins you earn from jobs ( bounties, regular incomes for helping teams in moderation, etc.) ? It is a job and an income but in bitcoin, so how is it considered and declared?
I consider my bitcoin income as actual income only when I exchange it to fiat. So I may have 1 bitcoin in my wallet and I cashed out 0.3 bitcoin to my bank account. So I will consider that 0.3 bitcoin equivalent of cash as my income and I will report it to my tax information sheet. I won't report my entire holding of 1 bitcoin because it is not actually received and infused in to economy.
So it doesn't matter how many bitcoins you earn from various sources like bounty, moderation, referral income etc. unless and until you cash it out, it can't be considered as your income as per the tax law in majority of the countries. I follow the same thing.
Your'e right. But in fact (we are working in Eastern Europe) tax service can make little bit differ decision, and here we have practice of income directly from mining forgetting salary in BTC.