Art Werner: Crypto Caution | Quick Tax Tip

Treat cryptocurrencies like the next dot-com bubble.

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As cryptocurrencies continue to infiltrate everyday investment portfolios and client conversations, seasoned tax educator and CPA Art Werner offers a stark warning to practitioners: “Crypto concerns me—and I think it should concern accountants.”

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In a recent episode of Quick Tax Tips with Art Werner, the well-respected tax advisor and educator peels back the hype to expose the risks tax professionals and their clients face when navigating the unpredictable world of digital currency. With over 20,000 cryptocurrencies in existence globally and little regulation governing many of them, Werner believes the speculative nature of crypto investments resembles past financial manias—with potentially devastating consequences.

Posted on May 14, 2025

Art Werner

About the Author

Arthur Joseph Werner, JD, MS (Taxation), is the president and founder of the professional education firm Werner-Rocca Seminars Ltd.

Werner’s lecture topic specialties include business, tax, financial and estate planning for high-net-worth individuals.

Werner lectures extensively in the areas of Estate Planning, Financial Planning, and Estate and Gift Taxation to Certified Public Accountants and Financial Planners, and has presented well in excess of 3000 eight-hour seminars over the past 25, years as well as numerous webinars and video presentations. He has been rated as having the highest speaker knowledge in his home state of Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs, was awarded the AICPA Outstanding Discussion Leader Award in the State of Nevada, the Florida Institute of CPAs Outstanding Discussion Leader Award, and the South Carolina Association of CPAs Outstanding Discussion Leader Award.

In addition, he is a former adjunct professor of taxation in the Master of Science in Taxation program at The Philadelphia University. Werner received his B.S. in Accounting and his M.S. in Taxation from Widener University. He holds a J.D. in Law from the Delaware Law School.

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