The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation wants to put miners for refusing to declare digital assets – Bits Media

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation plans to force cryptocurrency miners to report on their income in the tax. For refusal, the terms of up to four years in prison may be provided for, writes BAZA, which got acquainted with the bill.

Criminal amendments the Code was proposed by the deputy head of the ministry Alexei Moiseev. Miners will have to submit their tax returns, In which you will have to indicate the addresses-identifiers of their cryptocurns.

If the miner for three years has several times evades income declarations above 15 million rubles, He faces up to two years in prison. If the amount is higher 45 million, then the punishment is tightened to four years in prison.

The Ministry of Finance also wants to criminalize the “illegal organization of the circulation of digital currencies”. The department plans to create its own register of exchangers. They, which will not be included in the list, will be considered illegal. For the transfer of cryptocurrencies through such exchangers, the authorities threaten 7 years of imprisonment.

In March, representatives of the Russian Association of Cryptia and Blockchain wrote to Vladimir Putin an open letter with a warning: The Russian Federation can lag behind all other countries, If the authorities continue to pursue a strict policy of regulating digital assets.

At the beginning 2022 The Bank of Russia has launched a public discussion of a complete ban on cryptocurrency operations, Including trade and mining. And in December 2022 years in the Central Bank, they said, that cryptocurrencies obtained in Russia should be sold only non -residents on foreign exchanges. However, the Ministry of Finance did not support this proposal then. The Bank of Russia is afraid, that cryptocurrencies and stablecoins are introduced too fast, And it can be risky for the monetary system.

In February 2023 Anatoly Aksakov, the head of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market, told, that the authorities are discussing the need for a mandatory verification of users, In fact, equating legal crypto -rhins to banks.

Recently, the Russian was sentenced to two years conditionally for "a conspiracy with an unknown attacker", To whom the accused sold the ruble code on the GaratEx cryptocurrency exchange.