El Salvador to Exempt Foreigner Investors from Tax on Bitcoin Price Gains
“There will be no taxes to pay on either the capital increase or the income,” the legal adviser to President Nayib Bukele said.Foreign investors will not be required to pay taxes on profits from Bitcoin, a government adviser told the AFP this week.Javier Argueta, legal adviser to President Nayib Bukele, told the news source, "If a person has assets in bitcoin and makes high profits, there will be no tax. This (is done) obviously to encourage foreign investment.”“There will be no taxes to pay on either the capital increase or the income,” Argueta said. El Salvador is making the most of its....
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El Salvador is looking to attract foreign investment by adopting major tax breaks on Bitcoin trading. The government of El Salvador will reportedly exempt investors from paying a capital gains tax and an income tax on Bitcoin (BTC), according to a presidential legal counsel.Javier Argueta, a legal adviser to President Nayib Bukele, is looking to encourage foreign investment through major tax breaks on Bitcoin, Agence France-Presse reported Sept. 10. “If a person has assets in Bitcoin and makes high profits, there will be no tax. This is done obviously to encourage foreign investment,”....
Israeli lawmakers have proposed in a draft new law to treat bitcoin as a currency instead of an asset for tax purposes, local media reported. According to a report from Globes, four legislators from the Yisrael Beiteinu political party presented the Income Tax Ordinance (Taxation of the Sale of Digital Currencies) bill in the Israeli parliament Knesset on September 22. The bill by the four – MK Oded Forer, Yevgeny Soba, Yulia Malinovsky, and Alex Kushnir – proposes several changes to crypto taxation, including the amendment of the existing tax law to exempt digital assets like....
The president of El Salvador has some advice for bitcoin investors. He believes investments in the largest cryptocurrency are safe and will “immensely grow” after the bear market.
El Salvador’s President on Bitcoin Investments
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has spoken up about bitcoin investments amid BTC’s heavy sell-off.
El Salvador has purchased 2,301 bitcoins since the country made BTC legal tender alongside the U.S. dollar in September last year. With the price of bitcoin plunging, El Salvador’s BTC investment has....
Just one day following reported that tax authorities in the United Kingdom would be dumping a tax on bitcoin trading, HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs) has issued tax guidance on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Some interesting points: HMRC will exempt bitcoin mining income because "there is an insufficient link between any services provided and any consideration received." Bitcoin exchanges for Sterling and other foreign currencies will be VAT exempt. "Charges (in whatever form) made over and above the value of the Bitcoin for arranging or carrying out any transactions in Bitcoin....
El Salvador, the country that made bitcoin legal tender alongside the U.S. dollar, has bought the dip again. The Salvadoran government has purchased a total of 1,120 bitcoins, currently worth more than $68 million. El Salvador’s Bitcoin Holdings Grow El Salvador has bought the dip again, taking advantage of the falling price of bitcoin on Wednesday. President Nayib Bukele tweeted: “It was a long wait, but worth it. We just bought the dip.” At the time of writing, the price of bitcoin is $61,129, down from an all-time high of almost $67,000 on Oct. 19 based on data....