{"id":28758,"date":"2025-05-27T10:46:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T10:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28758"},"modified":"2025-05-27T10:46:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T10:46:48","slug":"indias-crypto-industry-lobbies-for-tax-cuts-as-government-eyes-softening-stance-ft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28758","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Crypto Industry Lobbies for Tax Cuts as Government Eyes Softening Stance: FT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The crypto industry in India has spotted its chance to lobby for more favorable treatment from New Delhi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/528de801-fe00-4e36-a3aa-1080937b646e\">according to a Financial Times report<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Crypto exchange executives said Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s government&#8217;s has become more receptive towards digital assets and has engaged in discussions since Donald Trump&#8217;s return to the White House, the FT reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks to Trump, the positive momentum that has happened in crypto has impacted India as well,&#8221; CoinSwitch co-founder Ashish Singhal said, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The industry&#8217;s big ask is a reduction in the &#8220;very harshly&#8221; imposed taxes, Singhal added. <\/p>\n<p>In India, crypto transactions are currently subject to a 30% capital gains tax and a 1% levy on every transaction out of concern from authorities that digital assets are being used for criminal purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has also been a vocal crypto critic, even banning banks from providing services to crypto companies in 2018. Though this was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2020\/03\/04\/indias-supreme-court-lifts-banking-ban-on-crypto-exchanges\">set aside by the Supreme Court<\/a> in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Current RBI governor Sanjay Malhotra has avoided directly criticizing cryptocurrency, with Singhal saying its relationship with the central bank going &#8220;negative to neutral.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/05\/20\/why-cant-india-draft-a-clear-cut-crypto-policy-countrys-supreme-court-raps-government\">Why Can&#8217;t India Draft a Clear Cut Crypto Policy? Country&#8217;s Supreme Court Raps Government<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crypto industry in India has spotted its chance to lobby for more favorable treatment from New Delhi, according to a Financial Times report on Tuesday. Crypto exchange executives said Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s government&#8217;s has become more receptive towards digital assets and has engaged in discussions since Donald Trump&#8217;s return to the White House, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-28758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}