Finance : Investors with diversified portfolios are always looking for a new asset class or type to increase their profitability, and crypto...
Income Tax : The article explains the taxation framework for cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and other VDAs under Sections 115BBH and 194S. It highligh...
Finance : The article explains that each crypto card transaction is treated as a taxable transfer of virtual digital assets under Indian tax...
Corporate Law : The court recognized cryptocurrency as property, but lack of statutory clarity leaves companies uncertain about holding, accountin...
Income Tax : The law replaces Form 26QE with Form 141 for VDA transactions from April 2026. Taxpayers must follow the new challan-cum-statement...
Finance : The Finance Ministry highlighted regulatory and enforcement challenges posed by VDAs, including crypto assets. Measures such as 30...
Finance : In a Lok Sabha response, the government clarified its stance on VDAs, stating no plans to revise crypto taxes or launch ETFs, whil...
Corporate Law : Crypto not yet regulated in India; FIU monitors VASPs under PMLA. 1% TDS applies to VDAs. RBI issues advisories on crypto risks; n...
Income Tax : India's Finance Ministry details VDA/cryptocurrency tax revenue, compliance tools, and official training, addressing tax evasion c...
Finance : CBI conducts searches across India in the GainBitcoin scam, seizing digital evidence and crypto wallets to trace misappropriated f...
Income Tax : ITAT Delhi condoned a 333-day delay in filing appeal after finding the reasons stated by the assessee to be bona fide. The matter ...
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...
Income Tax : The notification expands reporting rules to include central bank digital currencies, electronic money products and relevant crypto...
Income Tax : Government initiatives under PMLA and Black Money Act target undisclosed crypto income, enhancing monitoring, enforcement, and com...
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...
What are NFT’S? Before we delve into the definition let us first understand the meaning of the term Non-Fungible. What does it exactly mean? In simple terms the term non-fungible means non replaceable. Let me explain this with an example. For instance, the book Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling must […]
Non- fungible tokens (NFT), is a fairly novel concept but also one that has gained popularity all around the globe in a short span of time and has piqued the interest of society at large. They can be termed as a data unit stored on a digital public ledger i.e. the block chain that verifies a digital asset as unique and thus non-transferable.
The GST Mumbai East Commissionerate of Mumbai Zone, while investigating the business activities of cryptocurrency exchange WazirX have detected GST Evasion of Rs 40.5 Crores. The Commissionerate has also recovered Rs 49.20 Crores in Cash pertaining to GST evaded, interest and penalty.
WHAT IS MINING? Mining is a process of validating new crypto transactions and generating new transactions(coins) in the crypto world by solving complex mathematical problems. People who are responsible to initiate these processes are known as miners. HOW MINING PROCESS IS DONE? With the growth in the crypto world, it has become a business for […]
A crypto currency or crypto is a collection of binary data which is designed to work as a medium of exchange. Individual coin ownership records are stored in a ledger, which is a computerized database using strong cryptography to secure transaction records, to control the creation of additional coins, and to verify the transfer of coin […]
Millions of Indians have invested in crypto currencies and have made huge gains in last couple of years. Now, it is the time to file their income tax returns. But they are not sure how to treat the income from cryptocurrency trading in their ITR. Nothing is specifically prescribed in Income Tax laws of land. Even […]
Convertibility- Current and Capital Account Convertibility, which may seem as a complex economical jargon, but has a fairly simple concept. It is the freedom of converting a foreign currency to a domestic currency or vice-versa at market determined exchange rate. Currency can be exchanged for various purposes such as for imports, exports, remittances, investments etc. […]
Let’s treat cryptocurrency as a normal stock, trading in an exchange…What factor makes the prices of the stock go up and down? There’s just one- Demand & Supply. If a stock is in Demand that is the number of people with positive sentiments (interested in buying) is more than the number of people with negative […]
While somebody calls it cryptocurrency or some other name, FATF, an independent inter-governmental body has given its guidelines-2021 and let us learn from the most authoritative source some basics on virtual asset. No popular sentiments but bare and simple guidelines to all countries/jurisdictions. A separate article of mine published earlier in taxguru.in explains the function […]
The recent issuance of Bulletin Part-II on the Lok Sabha’s website has created huge havoc between the common man, investors and market players. The said Bulletin covers the ‘General Information relating to Parliamentary and other matters’. As per the Bulletin, ‘The Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2021’ is likely to be introduced […]
