Italy to impose 26% capital gains tax on crypto profits

Italy is readying to tighten regulations on integer currencies by expanding its taxation laws to see cryptocurrency trading successful 2023, according to fund documentation released connected Dec. 1.

Included successful its 2023 fund are plans to enforce a 26% levy connected profits larger than 2000 euros ( $2,062.3) made connected cryptocurrency trading, according to Bloomberg. Prior to this proposal, integer currencies had little taxation rates due to the fact that they were antecedently considered “foreign currency."

In the projected bill, taxpayers volition person the enactment to state the worth of their integer plus holdings arsenic of Jan. 1, and wage a 14% tax. This is acceptable to incentivize Italian integer plus holders to state their assets successful their taxation returns. 

According to Tripe A data, 2.3% of the Italian population, which equates to astir about 1.3 cardinal people, ain crypto assets successful Italy. By July 2022, it was estimated that astir 57% of crypto users were male, portion 43% of users were female, with astir of its users belonging to the 28-38-year property group. 

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Italy appears to beryllium pursuing successful Portugal’s footsteps successful the projected taxation of integer currencies. In October, Portugal, the once-known cryptocurrency taxation haven, projected a 28% taxation connected superior gains from cryptocurrencies held for little than a year.

In the 2023 authorities budget, the Portuguese authorities addressed the taxation of cryptocurrencies, which had been antecedently near untouched by the Portuguese taxation authorities, since integer assets were not recognized arsenic ineligible tender.

The Portuguese authorities intends to make a "broad and adequate" taxation model aimed astatine cryptocurrencies successful presumption of their taxation and classification. The projected taxation measure covers operations involving cryptocurrency mining, trading, arsenic good as, superior gains.