Features of Taxation of Transactions with Digital Currency

The subject of the study is the taxation of transactions with digital currency. The objectives of the work are to establish the key features of taxation of transactions with digital currency in the Russian Federation, to determine approaches to making changes to regulatory legal documents. The relevance of the work is due to the accelerating development of digital technologies, in which the legislator does not have time to develop and adopt appropriate legislative acts. Based on the analysis of the legislation of the Russian Federation, draft laws, letters from the Ministry of Finance and the Federal Tax Service of Russia, program documents of the Bank for International Settlements, scientific publications of Russian and foreign researchers, the concepts of cryptocurrency, digital currency, digital financial assets, mining of cryptocurrencies for tax purposes have been clarified. The differences in the interpretations of the concepts of various types of digital assets according to the method of creation and the purposes of their use are highlighted. The features of taxation of transactions with digital assets in terms of value added tax, corporate income tax, and tax paid under the simplified taxation system are described. It is concluded that for the purposes of calculating VAT, digital currency can be qualified as property. Cryptocurrency should be defined as a digital currency. When mining cryptocurrencies using mining equipment that is actually located on the territory of the Russian Federation, the service for organizing the issuance of digital currency takes place on the territory of the Russian Federation. It is proposed to exclude contradictions in the definition of the law enforcement of new digital technologies in the country’s economy from the legislation, which will allow subjects of foreign economic activity to use digital technologies in the legal field, without expecting possible negative legal consequences.

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