Indian crypto industry strives for tax clarity in the Union budget 2022-23-taxes
Indian crypto industry strives for tax clarity in the Union budget 2022-23-taxes
An Indian industrial association wrote to the country's finance minister and asked for clarity about the taxation of cryptocurrencies in the Union budget 2022-23. "The household should ideally offer coherent rules for direct taxation and the GST council should describe the applicability of taxation in detail, otherwise there is confusion."
Industry wants clarity in the crypto tax laws in the Union budget 2022-23
The Indian Indiating Indiating Association has written to the state's finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, regarding the taxation of cryptocurrencies. The association represents the most important cryptocurrency exchanges in India, including Coinswitch Kuber, Wazirx and Coindcx.
In his letter, the association asked the finance minister for clarity regarding crypto taxation in the Union budget 2022-23. The government also asked the government to change existing tax laws to include crypto-assets. The President and CEO of Indiatech, Ramesh Kailasam, told ETTECH:
The household should ideally contain coherent rules for direct taxation and the GST council should describe the applicability of taxation in detail, otherwise there will be confusion.
Some cryptocurrency exchanges were accused of evading the goods and service tax (GST). India's Directorate General for Tax Information for Ware and Services (DGGI) examines several crypto companies for tax evasion.
The DGGI recently attacked large cryptocurrency exchanges and discovered "massive". According to tax evasion, the raid has reported tax evasion worth around 70 billion rupees ($ 9.4 million). Crypto exchanges blamed the confusion of tax laws as the reason for the incorrect payment of the taxes.
Indiatech has asked Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to recognize cryptocurrencies as digital assets and not as currencies. The industry association has also recommended that 18% GST only be raised to the commissions of the stock exchanges.
India still has no law that regulates crypto-assets directly. However, a draft law about cryptocurrencies should be checked in the winter meeting of the parliament, but was not taken up, and the Indian government is now reporting the bill.
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