Tax


Policy

Indonesian Crypto Exchanges Blame Dramatic Drop in Trading Volumes Partly on High Taxes

Indonesian crypto exchanges saw a 60% drop in trading volumes in 2023, challenging its reputation as a fast adopter of digital assets.

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Policy

India's Local Crypto and Web3 Advocacy Body Asked for Action Against Offshore Entities: Source

Bharat Web3 Association's (BWA) Chairman wrote the letter to the Indian government on Dec. 16.

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Policy

Vladimir Putin's Signature Brings Digital Ruble Into Russia's Tax Code

The tax code now contains a definition of "digital ruble account" and has rules for the taxation of transactions with digital rubles.

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Finance

TaxWraps: Unwrap the Financial Gift of Tokenization This Christmas

As tokenization takes hold, we propose a way to defer tax liabilities, bringing the tax efficiencies of ETFs to a wide market.

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Finance

Crypto Accounting and Tax Reporting Platform TRES Raises $11M to Add New Blockchains

TRES currently services clients with combined assets worth $19 billion, helping them manage, monitor and reconcile their digital asset activity across more than 100 layer-1 and layer 2-blockchain networks.

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Policy

UK Won’t Excuse Ignorance in the Hunt for Unpaid Crypto Taxes, Experts Say

The government could use a number of different ways to track down crypto tax evaders, CoinDesk was told.

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Policy

UK to Hit Crypto Users With Penalties for Unpaid Taxes

The Treasury encouraged users to voluntarily disclose unpaid income or capital gains tax from crypto, NFT and utility token holdings.

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Opinion

1 Way to Revive Dead NFT Wallets

Artist and legal scholar Brian Frye says inaccessible crypto tokens cannot be sold, but can be donated — with potentially significant tax benefits.

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Videos

Could the Bank Secrecy Act Harm Crypto? Coin Center Thinks So

In this episode of Unchained, Peter Van Valkenburgh, director of research at Coin Center, explains why the IRS's proposed broker rule for tax reporting in crypto could harm the crypto industry as well as the security and privacy of users. He explains how Coin Center thinks the IRS should accomplish its aims, and why that would even work for collecting taxes on DeFi gains.

Unchained