Michael Saylor, Tax Fraud and Bitcoin – Bitcoin Magazine

This is an opinion editorial by Dr. Riste Simnjanovski, a tenured professor of public administration at California Baptist University, and Kenneth Minesinger, a business and tax attorney.

If you’re in the Bitcoin space, you know about Michael Saylor. Regardless of your personal opinion of the individual, the companies he founded, ran or sold, or his perspective on monetary policy, many themes revolving around Saylor have become commonplace in academic, personal and political discussions.

In August 2022, via District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine and “Tributum, LLC” (note the irony that “Tributum” (the co-plaintiff) translates to “a tax imposed on citizens to finance the costs of war under ancient Rome” has not gone unnoticed; nor the fact that DC is actually a municipal corporation) has jointly filed a lawsuit against Saylor and MicroStrategy ( MSTR ), alleging, among other things, that “Defendant Michael J. Saylor has illegally deprived the District of Columbia of tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue .”

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