Indiske kryptobørser kan miste 1.2 billioner USD af handelsvolumen i de næste fire år: forskning

India’s current cryptocurrency skattestruktur “may lead to a loss of approximately US$1.2 trillion of local exchange trade volume in the next four years,” according to research by Esya Centre, a technology policy think tank in India.

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• Cumulative trade volume of about US$3.852 billion moved from India’s centralized crypto exchanges to foreign exchanges between February and October 2022, after India introduced strict crypto tax rules on Feb. 1, the rapport sagde.  
• Indien pålagde en 30% flad skat on all crypto income effective April 1 and introduced en kildeskat på 1 % (TDS) on transactions above 10,000 Indian rupees (US$120) from July 1. India grants ingen bestemmelse to offset crypto losses against gains made elsewhere. 
• The implementation of the 1% TDS has had the most “distortionary impact” out of the three tax measures since Indian exchanges lost up to 81% of their trading volumes in July-October following the levy, the report said. 
• Virtual Digital Assets adoption by Indians – measured in terms of mobile app downloads – fell by 16% month-on-month for domestic exchanges during July-September, but increased by the same quantum for foreign exchanges, the report said.
• Indian crypto exchanges lost 97.1% of their volumes in January-October while foreign exchanges lost 36.3%. 
• The report also recommended lowering the TDS from 1% to 0.1%, allowing gains to offset losses, as well as ensuring internationally competitive tax on gains. 
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