Overview
- Turner stepped down after roughly 90 days leading the IRS digital assets unit, closing a career of more than 20 years and extending a run of rapid turnover that included prior exits by Seth Wilks and Raj Mukherjee.
- She will become tax director at CryptoTaxGirl and will also work with UK-based Asset Reality on crypto-related projects.
- The IRS has not announced a successor or outlined how it will fill the vacancy in its crypto division.
- Brokers are set to issue the new 1099-DA to investors next year, a change expected to expand the filer pool well beyond the roughly 3 million taxpayers who have previously reported crypto transactions.
- The agency faces reduced staffing and budgets along with policy uncertainty after Congress overturned a DeFi broker rule and watchdogs urged reforms to how crypto cases are handled.