EU To Force Crypto Companies To Report Their Users’ Holdings To Tax Authorities By BtcCasey The European Union (EU) has announced plans to make cryptocurrency companies report their European users' holdings to tax authorities.
The proposed directive could also force non-EU based companies to register with tax entities there. The EU Commissioner for tax, Paolo Gentiloni, said that "anonymity means that many crypto-asset users making significant profits fall under the radar of national tax authorities. This is not acceptable."
The EU estimates that the move could generate as much as $2.5 billion. The main concern, beyond creating regulatory red tape, is the honeypot of user data that registering user holdings creates, and the potential for data leaks. |