Thailand has exempted trading in digital assets from value-added tax, the government said Tuesday in laying out measures to modernize its payments infrastructure.
Finance Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith told a Cabinet meeting that the 7% VAT won’t apply to transfers of cryptocurrencies or digital tokens from April 1, 2022 to Dec. 31, 2023—as long as they take place on government-authorized cryptocurrency exchanges. Transfers of the central bank’s digital currency, to be launched this year on an experimental basis, also would be exempt.
- Crypto traders also will be allowed to offset their crypto-trading losses against their profits, the finance minister ...
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