Pantera Capital’s Dan Morehead faces U.S. tax probe over $850M crypto profits after relocating to Puerto Rico, per Senate Finance Committee letter.

Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden has opened an investigation into whether Pantera Capital founder Dan Morehead improperly used Puerto Rico’s tax incentives to avoid U.S. taxes on crypto gains. In the committee’s account, Morehead may have treated more than $1 billion in gains from a Pantera transaction as exempt after moving to Puerto Rico, even though a large share of those gains allegedly accrued while he still lived in California. Wyden’s letter says the committee believes Morehead’s share of the profits was in the hundreds of millions of dollars and that the potential tax underpayment could exceed $100 million. The letter also says Morehead did not respond to earlier committee inquiries, and it ties the case to broader scrutiny of advisers and taxpayers using Puerto Rico residency claims and Act 60 incentives to shelter U.S.-source income from federal tax. The matter matters because it sits at the intersection of cryptocurrency wealth, offshore-style tax planning, and federal enforcement of Puerto Rico residency rules. It also suggests the Senate is using Morehead’s case as part of a wider probe into whether wealthy taxpayers and advisers have overstated Puerto Rico residency or mischaracterized income to claim tax exemptions that were not intended to cover pre-move gains.

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