Cryptocurrencies need to be brought under the purview of tax information shared by countries, India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said at a G20 Ministerial Symposium on Tax and Development in Bali.
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- The G20 should examine the feasibility of exchanging information on non-financial assets not already covered by Common Reporting Standards (CRS), local media said, quoting Sitharaman.
- Alleged tax evaders are using non-financial assets to move wealth, she claimed.
- Most of India’s major crypto traders have either moved overseas or operate through offshore entities following steep taxes imposed by the government.
- India’s investigations into tax evaders showed they used multiple entities to hide assets that were unaccounted for, Sitharaman said.
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