{"id":71898,"date":"2026-02-11T10:46:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=71898"},"modified":"2026-02-11T10:46:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:46:34","slug":"indian-lawmaker-urges-legal-status-for-crypto-stablecoins-to-prevent-them-going-offshore-let-us-not-fear-innovation-let-us-regulate-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=71898","title":{"rendered":"Indian Lawmaker Urges Legal Status For Crypto, Stablecoins To Prevent Them Going Offshore: &#8216;Let Us Not Fear Innovation, Let Us Regulate It&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Raghav Chadha<\/strong>, a member of India\u2019s upper chamber of Parliament, urged the government to establish a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies and stablecoins in the country.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>India&#8217;s Crypto Polic<\/strong>ies Under Scanner<\/h2>\n<p>In a speech in the Parliament on Monday, Chadha highlighted what he viewed as the paradox of taxing cryptocurrency gains at 30% without legal recognition, investor protections, or anti-money laundering frameworks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia taxes VDAs [virtual digital asset] like they are legal. But regulates it like they are illegal,\u201d  Chadha said.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Legalise Virtual Digital Assets (like Crypto, Stablecoin) in India. Don&#8217;t drive them offshore.<\/p>\n<p>India taxes VDAs (virtual digital asset) like they are legal. But regulate it like they are illegal.<br \/>India taxes cryptocurrency at 30% Capital Gain Tax + 1% TDS; yet offers no legal\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y1JXJLBW85\">pic.twitter.com\/Y1JXJLBW85<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Raghav Chadha (@raghav_chadha) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/raghav_chadha\/status\/2021083625685676241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async ...><\/p>\n<p><a href=https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50534324\/indian-lawmaker-urges-legal-status-for-crypto-stablecoins-to-prevent-them-going-offshore-le?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel alt=Indian Lawmaker Urges Legal Status For Crypto, Stablecoins To Prevent Them Going Offshore: &#039;Let Us Not Fear Innovation, Let Us Regulate It&#039;>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/script><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raghav Chadha, a member of India\u2019s upper chamber of Parliament, urged the government to establish a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies and stablecoins in the country. India&#8217;s Crypto Policies Under Scanner In a speech in the Parliament on Monday, Chadha highlighted what he viewed as the paradox of taxing cryptocurrency gains at 30% without legal recognition, [&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-71898","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\/71898","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=71898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}