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Does crypto currency have a role to play in employers’ pay strategies?

Employee Benefits

Need to know: Crypto currency is still unusual in pay strategies with early adopters predominately technology businesses and the professional services firms that support them. Crypto currency is subject to income tax when an employee receives it but could also incur a capital gains tax charge if they hold it for more than 30 days.

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Rolling the Dice on Crypto in Retirement Plan

HR Professionals Magazine

And here is what we tell them…Cryptocurrency is a currency that is digital, encrypted and decentralized. But this way of holding currency is actually what makes it very difficult to hack and introduces us to the term blockchain. Blockchain works in a similar way. Off to a sketchy sounding start, right?

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What are the emerging trends in payroll?

LACE Partners

Every time an employee interacts with the Payroll and HR teams via a system, they leave behind a digital footprint. How does blockchain impact payroll? Whilst blockchain is a much talked about concept, it remains an approach that many are speculative over its value in certain business circumstances.

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Top HR Technology Trends in 2018

Hppy

Blockchain. Blockchain is one of the most revolutionary technologies of the past few years. Originally developed as the accounting method for the virtual currency Bitcoin, blockchains – which use what’s known as distributed ledger technology (DLT) – are appearing in a variety of commercial applications today.

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Cryptocurrency for Employee Benefits Lawyers: What You Need to Know

McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

McDermott Partners Andrew Liazos, Andrea Kramer and Brian Tiemann recently offered their perspectives about cryptocurrency, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) taxation guidance of convertible virtual currencies and other cryptocurrency-related compensation issues […].