A non-fungible token (NFT) trader could face up to six years in prison after pleading guilty to underreporting nearly $13 million in profits from trading CryptoPunks, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Waylon Wilcox, 45, admitted to filing false income tax returns for the 2021 and 2022 tax years. The former CryptoPunk investor pleaded guilty on April 9 to two counts of filing data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-to-file-crypto-taxes-in-the-us” rel=”” target=”_self” text=”null” title=”https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-to-file-crypto-taxes-in-the-us”>false individual income tax returns, federal prosecutors said in an April 11 press data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdpa/pr/york-county-man-pleads-guilty-filing-false-income-tax-returns-omitted-more-13-million” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” text=”null” title=”https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdpa/pr/york-county-man-pleads-guilty-filing-false-income-tax-returns-omitted-more-13-million”>release.
Back in April 2022, Wilcox filed a false…
