The Internal Revenue Service has hired two private-sector experts to help the agency's enforcement efforts for cryptocurrency and other digital assets.
Sulolit "Raj" Mukherjee, and Seth Wilks, CPA, have been hired as executive advisors.
"This is a complex and evolving sector that has major tax administration implications," said IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel in a statement. "It's important we get this right for taxpayers and the nation. Pulling in expertise from the private sector to work with the IRS team is critical to successfully building the agency's efforts involving digital assets and helping us do it in a way that works well for everyone."
Mukherjee has been a tax executive for more than 10 years in tax compliance and tax information reporting for financial institutions and has extensive experience in the crypto industry, the IRS said.
Mukherjee joins the IRS from a private blockchain software technology company where he served as global head of tax.
