Minister of Finance thinks that it is doubtful the public would accept a change in the taxation of cryptocurrency transactions, reports today, June 25.
During today’s Upper House Budget Committee meeting, Taro Aso — also Japan’s Deputy Prime Minister — said that crypto transactions should be taxed as a “separate self-assessment taxation” rather than their present classification as “miscellaneous income,” while expressing doubt over the public’s reaction due to “tax fairness.”
The current tax rate for crypto transactions has a maximum of 55 percent, and changing its category would bring it to a 20 percent flat tax similar to stocks or forex trades.
During the same meeting, Aso noted that the position of cryptocurrency in the international financial sector is uncertain. He also spoke of the importance of the development of technology, but added that supporting the technology can be controversial, given that it underlies cryptocurrencies.
Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has been active last week, to crypto exchanges as part of their ongoing regulatory inspections following the $530 million of Japanese crypto exchange in January.
Today, the two vice-presidents of Japan’s self-regulatory cryptocurrency exchange body after both of their respective exchanges received FSA business improvement notices last week.
Published at Mon, 25 Jun 2018 19:30:00 +0000
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