THELOGICALINDIAN - The DIAN the Colombian tax ascendancy has appear it is demography appropriate measures to bind controls on taxpayers currently application cryptocurrencies to transact With these accomplishments the alignment seeks to ascertain any taxpayers that accept acclimated crypto assets and bootless to address these activities or appear them afield This activity seeks to baffle cryptocurrencyrelated tax artifice in the country
Colombian Tax Authority Targets Tax Evaders
The Colombian tax authority, alleged the DIAN, has appear that its abutting ambition is cryptocurrency-utilizing tax evaders. According to a PR statement appear January 28, the academy declared that it was adventure a alternation of measures to bind controls on taxpayers application cryptocurrencies for transacting or trading purposes.
While these accomplishments accept not been accurately disclosed, the measures chase the cold of accepting added accuracy about the movement of cryptocurrency users and traders in the country. The DIAN stated:
The alignment added explained this is allotment of the anti-money bed-making and agitation costs behavior of the Colombian state. For this objective, the academy additionally appear that an acceding active amid Colombia and Finland would be key, acceptance the chargeless barter of advice amid the institutions of both countries. Localbitcoins, one of the arch peer-to-peer (P2P) based cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, is based in Finland.
Colombia and Crypto
The attendance of cryptocurrencies in Colombia has been steadily growing, admitting the acceptance is still baby compared with added countries on the abstemious — like Venezuela or Argentina. However, there accept been attempts to accommodate crypto into acceptable accounts with the cold of abatement the addition of the new assets into the ecosystem.
One project, alleged the crypto sandbox, accustomed exchanges to assignment in bike with banks, giving the befalling for cryptocurrency users to accomplish crypto purchases with absolute abutment from cyberbanking institutions. Also, Colombia ranks additional in Latam for the accomplished cardinal of cryptocurrency ATMs, aloof abaft El Salvador, which aloft its numbers due to the enactment of Chivo wallet ATMs.
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