Now that the dust has finally settled on Budget 2022, let's break down the crypto tax and what that means for everyone.
We've spent the last 24 hours breaking down the Finance Bill 2022 and here's what we found.
Crypto tax - a thread 🧵
1/ You've all seen the news - there's a new tax introduced on cryptocurrencies in Budget 2021. How does this affect you? Is this good news or bad news?
Is there a way we get around the fact that Bitcoin DOES NOT work in isolation? Bitcoin is (and probably always will be) valued in terms of another currency.
So you have an alternative to Gold - great! But is that all that Bitcoin can be?
Bitcoin does not seem like it can ever be used as a medium of exchange. For multiple reasons:
2/n
1. Governments are unlikely to allow this. 2. How do you value something in Bitcoin terms if the value keeps fluctuating? A currency needs to be stable(ish)
3/n
1/ There are at least 380 persons of Indian nationality in the Pandora Papers.
These documents relate to the ultimate ownership of assets ‘settled’ (or placed) in private offshore trusts.
Corporate mumbo jumbo is cut out. This looks at who is the real owner of an asset.
2/ Ugh. What's this trust you keep speaking of?
Without getting into the legal mumbo jumbo of it, a trustee (a third party) holds assets on behalf of individuals that are to benefit from it (beneficiaries).