For those just starting out investing or thinking about investing in precious metals you should be aware of the IRS guidelines on reportable sales to the IRS from a precious metals dealer. So let’s just get to it. Here is what I have found out about precious metals and taxes.

First off, currently if you buy precious metals from a dealer within the United States they are not required to report sales transactions to the IRS. When purchasing physical gold or silver in bullion, bars, coins, or rounds. These are the most common forms of gold and silver bought for investing purposes. However when you go back to any dealer to sell your precious metals, there are certain types of transactions that are required by US law to be reported back to the IRS. This means the dealer will be sending you an IRS form 1099-B reporting the sale of your transaction and a copy of that 1099-B will go to the Internal Revenue Service....

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In the earliest of times trading and bartering were used in the exchange of goods and services. The trading of such items as herd animals, sea shells, salt, tobacco, gold, gemstones and other similar items were commonly used by man before actual currency was invented.

Currency – The Beginning

The first currency ever used, was in coin form and dates back to 600 B.C. by then King Croesus of Lydia in Asia Minor. At that time Lydia was located in what is now present day Turkey. These coins were minted from a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver called electrum. And each coin had a specific weight of 4.7 grams. These coins functioned as a medium of exchange, unit of payment and were capable of preserving value...

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Gold does not have very many industrial applications or everyday uses in general. However the one thing gold has always been good for, is value protection. Throughout history gold has always maintained its true value regardless, the economic circumstances it encounters. Currency devaluation is always accompanied by inflationary monetary policy.

Gold has always been used as a hedge against devaluing currencies including the US dollar. Silver has always had a high industrial demand. However now it is also being used to hedge inflation being dubbed the “poor man’s gold”....

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The United States is in the throes of crushing debt, politicians are not doing a good job at all reducing the amount money the government is spending and the national debt only increases day by day.

Increasingly, the unhealthy growth of the American Government borrowing dollars and spending even more dollars has only helped fuel the fire which has been creating instability for the US dollar through increased debt. However, there are other reasons for the occurrence of our current crisis and why the US dollar has been noticed “tanking” by many financial experts. All of the reasons, they said, are actually caused by both the government and the central bank itself...

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