Paying Your Taxes in Crypto? ‘Ehhh, I Don’t Think So’

This week in state tax news: Colorado’s governor made a push for residents to pay their taxes in cryptocurrency, but very few have taken him up on it Meanwhile, the federal lawsuit challenging Maryland’s controversial digital advertising tax has been dismissed, taxpayers gave Washington state tax officials an earful on their plan to collect a new capital gains tax while the program is subject to a constitutional challenge, and a New York jury found the Trump Organization guilty of criminal tax fraud.

It wasn’t long ago that Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) announced his state would be the first ...