media: Kazakhstani miners paid to the treasury $7 Mill of taxes – Bits Media

The Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2022 The year received 3,07 billion tenge (about $7 million) In the form of taxes from miners. Cause, Local media write: entry into force of amendments to the Tax Code.

According to the Republican Government, Taxes, collected from January March 2023 year from cryptocurrency extraction, Compiled 240 million tenge (More than $ 541,000). This is a little less, than for the first quarter of last year, when from miners to the state of the state came 652 million tenge (about $1.5 million).

FROM 1 january 2022 year in the country has a mining tax, based on the volume of electricity consumed. In July, President Kasim-Zhomart Tokaev signed the law on amendments to the country's tax code, providing for tax increase for persons, mining cryptocurrencies.

Recently, the government of the republic has announced plans to introduce new laws to suppress illegal mining and tax evasion. One of the offers requires minimum miners at least 75% Cryptocurrency mined to exchanges, registered in the special economic zone in Astana.

The republic is one of the world's leading Bitcoin mining centers. According to the Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance (Cavalry), in January 2022 year, the share of Kazakhstan in the hash -shaft network of bitcoin was 13,22%, Giveled only the United States (37,84%) And China (21,11%).