印度或向比特币投资者征税

在印度储备银行（RBI）发布有关比特币交易的警告之后，印度投资者可能需要在买卖比特币之后所获得的收入进行缴税。

月初，印度央行再次向公众发出警告，警示公众小心数字货币（尤其是比特币）带来的风险。在12月5日的公告中，RBI警告投资者注意使用虚拟货币的“潜在经济、金融、运营、法律、客户保护和安全相关风险”。

因此，许多投资者开始卖币，其中就包括在班加罗尔的美国IT公司工程师S Shridhar。Shridhar听从RBI通知的指示，在周五卖出了20个比特币，截至发稿时，总价值达到了2180万卢比。但是，随后他的税收顾问告知他可能不得不为此缴纳税款，因为Shridhar将交易收入全部转入了其银行账户中。

专家认为，加密货币收益可能会引起多达20%-30%的税收，但这要取决于数字货币是否会被视作一种业务收入或资本收入。

税务咨询公司MGB的合伙人Jeenendra Bhandari解释说：

“如果任何人卖出比特币，其收入是否一定会产生税收要取决于其是否意图将其收益归类为业务收入或资本收入。确定比特币税率所需的所得税法并未作特别修正。”

不仅如此，据Ashok Maheshwary＆Associates LLP特许会计师事务所合伙人Amit Maheshwari表示，税务部门可以考虑将数字货币交易所得视为商业收入，将其当做投机业务并引起正规税率。他补充道：“如果有人卖出比特币，并将收入存入银行账户，则根据持有期限，这将产生长期资本收益税或短期资本收益税。”

Maheshwari表示，如果代币持有了至少36个月的时间，那么就可以对其征收20%的长期资本收益税。而对于短期资本收益来说，将增加30%。由于RBI发布的警告，印度民众都急于抛售比特币。而此时，尽管溢价飙升，印度零售商还是在快速采用比特币。

不过，尽管比特币在印度并未被认为是非法的，但它也没有得到法律认可。正式由于目前这种模棱两可的态度，印度最高法院呼吁政府就比特币的使用问题发布明确的指导方针，从而“监管比特币在该国内的流动”。

原文：

Investors in India are finding that they may be subject to paying tax after selling their bitcoin following the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) warning against trading in them.

Earlier this month, the country’s central bank issued its second warning to the public cautioning them about digital currencies, in particular, bitcoin. In a public notice, on the 5 December, the RBI warned adopters about the ‘potential economic, financial, operational, legal, customer protection and security related risks’ regarding the use of virtual currencies.

As a result, a number of investors have started to sell their coins, one of which is S Shridhar, an engineer working at an American IT company in Bengaluru reports The Economic Times. Heeding the notice from the RBI, Shridhar sold 20 bitcoins on Friday, an amount worth 21.8 million rupees, at the time of publishing. However, he was then told by his tax advisor that he may have to pay tax seeing as Shridhar transferred his return from the trade to his bank account.

Depending on whether the digital currency is considered as a business income or a capital gain, experts claim that returns from the cryptocurrency could attract as much as 20-30 percent tax.

Jeenendra Bhandari, partner at tax advisory firm MGB, explained:

In case anyone sells bitcoins, the gains would definitely attract taxation, depending on his intent to categorise the gains either as business income or capital gains. There is no specific amendment to income tax law required to determine bitcoin taxability.

Not only that, but tax departments could consider trade from selling the digital currency as business income, treating it as speculative business and attracting regular tax rates, according to Amit Maheshwari, partner at Ashok Maheshwary & Associates LLP Chartered Accountants, adding:

If anyone is selling bitcoins and the money comes in his bank account, this would attract either long-term capital gain tax or short-term capital gain tax, depending on the holding period.

Maheshwari said that long-term capital gain at 20 percent could be levied if the coins were held for at least 36 months. Short-term gains would see 30 percent added. Due to the RBI’s warning there has been a rush in India to sell their coins. This comes at a time when India’s retailers are quickly adopting bitcoin, despite soaring premiums.

Yet, even though bitcoin isn’t considered illegal in India, it isn’t legal either. It is this ambiguity that has seen India’s Supreme Court call on the government to issue clear guidelines regarding the use to ‘regulate the flow of bitcoin’ in the country.

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