Bitcoin & Co.: Draft BMF letter on the in-come tax treatment of cryptocurrencies and tokens – Part (1)
Initial Situation For some years now, Steffen has been reporting on the tax treatment of cryptocurrencies in his…
Bitcoin & Co.: current caselaw regarding the taxation of profits from the purchase and sale of cryptocurrencies
Background In part 1 and part 6 of my posts on the taxation of cryptocurrencies, I looked into…
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies (7): Bitcoin on the balance sheet and in the annual accounts
For businesses who voluntarily or as required by law (have to) prepare annual accounts, the question arises as…
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies (6): Losses in value of cryptocurrencies. What to do from a tax perspective?
The new year has only just entered its third quarter and looking at the price development of Bitcoin…
PayTechTalk Top5 – 2018: The most popular podcasts of 2018
As already hinted at in my last post: after we presented the PayTechLaw Top10, i.e. the ten blog…
PayTechTalk 31 – Paymentandbanking and PayTechLaw discuss the “Bitcoin decision”
Last week I gave you an update on the Bitcoin decision. Let’s recap. On 25th November 2018 the…
„Bitcoin decision“: trading Bitcoin is not a crime – the end of crypto regulation?
In its “Bitcoin decision” of 25 September 2018, the Berlin Court of Appeal (case no.: (4) 161 Ss…
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies (5): exchange of information
The example of US tax authorities and Coinbase, which I already mentioned in part 2 of my entry…
PayTechTalk 20 goes to Hollywood – Will ICOs disrupt the Dream Factory?
In last week’s episode of PayTechTalk, Nitish Kannan, CEO and co-founder of Circle Plus Payments, told us about…
PayTechTalk 19 from Money20/20 Asia – Nitish Kannan and the cashless economy
In this episode of PayTechTalk we talk to a very interesting young entrepreneur and visionary, Nitish Kannan, CEO and co-founder of Circle Plus Payments, a software development company that enables users to accept credit cards and bitcoin transactions on their smartphones without any further hardware needed.