Finance : In 2025, Bitcoin continues to redefine how we understand value, privacy, and decentralization in the digital age. No longer consid...
Finance : MEXC, a leading global cryptocurrency exchange, has significantly bolstered its reserve holdings, reporting an increase of approxi...
Finance : #AD In April 2025, at the Paris Blockchain Week(PBW), BYDFi, as one of the official sponsors, unveiled its new Web3 product—Moon...
SEBI : Analysis of cryptocurrency classification as securities under Indian law, considering SCRA, GIFT City rules, and SEBI's evolving p...
Income Tax : Indian crypto investors who thought they could dodge taxes by trading on foreign platforms like Binance are in for a rude awakenin...
Finance : CBI conducts searches across India in the GainBitcoin scam, seizing digital evidence and crypto wallets to trace misappropriated f...
Finance : CBI probes ₹350 crore cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes, recovering cash, digital assets, and evidence. Fraud involved unregulated de...
Finance : Indian government discusses VDA regulation, taxation, and global collaboration. No timeline set for guidelines; risks and innovati...
Goods and Services Tax : Details of GST evasion cases by cryptocurrency exchanges in India, including investigations and actions taken by the Government of...
Finance : Financial Intelligence Unit India issues compliance notices to 9 offshore Virtual Digital Assets Service Providers. Ministry of Fi...
Corporate Law : Allahabad High Court dismisses plea to quash FIR against Mahendra Pratap Srivastava ('Zoom Baba') in Ruby Coin crypto fraud, citin...
Income Tax : "ITAT Jodhpur rules Bitcoin gains as long-term capital gains (LTCG) and allows Section 54F deduction for AY 2021-22. Read the deta...
Income Tax : Assessee to satisfy the authority by submitting Crypto currency ledger to verify information as was submitted by him before AO in ...
Corporate Law : Tata Sons Private Limited Vs Hakunamatata Tata Founders (Delhi High Court) The plaintiff is a company incorporated in India. Thoug...
Finance : Grant of bail was refused as applicant did not return the amounts due to the complainants and there was a breach of trust and fait...
Goods and Services Tax : Explore key changes in CGST (Amendment) Bill 2023, focusing on taxability of casinos, horse racing, and online gaming. Understand ...
Corporate Law : Central Government hereby notifies that the following activities when carried out for or on behalf of another natural or legal per...
Income Tax : Notification No. 75/2022- (Income-tax) | Dated: 30th June, 2022– CBDT specifies a token which qualifies to be a virtual digi...
Income Tax : Central Government hereby notifies following virtual digital assets which shall be excluded from the definition of virtual digital...
Income Tax : Amendment of Income Tax rule 31A and insertion of Form No. 26QF (Quarterly statement of tax deposited in relation to transfer of v...
B V Harish Vs State of Karnataka (Karnataka High Court) In this case Karnataka High Court quashed and set aside a criminal case registered against founders of Bitcoin company, Unocoin for setting up a Bitcoin ATM in Bengaluru in 2018 as the case has been registered against the petitioners based on the Circular dated 06.04.2018 […]
If you are someone that’s embarking on a journey into cryptocurrencies and investing in burgeoning crypto assets, it’s important to understand your tax obligations as a crypto trader. Cryptocurrency is still regarded as a relatively new asset in monetary terms and therefore the regulations regarding its taxation are still being somewhat moulded, not least in […]
Due to the recent growth in Bitcoin trading activity in the country, India’s tax department has reportedly decided to chase the data it has acquired about individuals trading BTC way before the Reserve Bank of India banned it in 2018.
We have seen a lot of speculations in the Indian market on cryptocurrency after the Apex court gave its verdict in March 2020 favoring the crypto traders. As per the recent news, the Regulators have been working on preparing a note to pen down the proposal to the government. It is also very evident from […]
Introduction: With the developments all around, the need and discussion for virtual currency is witnessing a huge demand all around the globe. For our understanding it is to be noted that a virtual currency has no physical form, and it does not provide its owner with any inherent rights to property or another currency. Traditionally, […]
Blockchain as a term can be divided into two words i.e. block (a digital piece of information) and chain (number of information add-ups), which cannot be more than 1MB. It aims to provide Digital information that can be stored uniquely and cannot be edited further.
Cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin, is a digital form of currency. One major advantage of using this is that it is almost impossible to forge. This is due to cryptography being used as part of transactions, ensuring everything is more secure. Cryptocurrency is popular across the world. However, there are concerns regarding its use in India. […]
Treatment of bitcoins as goods/property would mean that supply of bitcoins is a ‘taxable supply’ and hence subject to GST. However, a supply of bitcoins as goods or property in exchange of other virtual/real goods should technically fall within the ambit of ‘barter transaction’ since bartering is simply an exchange of one good for other goods.
