Golden Finance reported that Tezos node operator Josh Jarrett sued the IRS again, demanding that staking rewards be treated as property rather than income. Jarrett previously filed a lawsuit in 2021 against the 2019 tax bill, but the case was dismissed in 2024 as "meaningless." In this lawsuit, Jarrett and his wife sought a tax refund for the 13,000 Tezos tokens they received in 2020, and asked the court to prohibit the IRS from treating staking rewards as income. Jarrett believes that tokens should be taxed when they are sold, not when they are obtained. Organizations such as Coin Center support this lawsuit, believing that current policies will inhibit participation in decentralized networks.