Anatoly Aksakov, the chairman of the Financial Markets Committee of Duma (a Russian State), stated that the lawmakers of Russia presently thinking about being acquainted with the industry of crypto mining to be a kind of entrepreneurship following the native business laws, as reported on 8th September by TASS news organization. Because crypto mining is going to be considered an entrepreneurial activity, there is a clear necessity to list it in the register of the state. This would be done to categorize and regulate it being entrepreneurship under a suitable code and to enforce appropriate taxation.

He added that the authorities are now enthusiastically working on different dimensions of the many legal initiatives regarding the crypto industry, supposing to step ahead with bills related to crypto taxation, the issuance of digital currency, and mining in the coming future. He also focused on the requirement of providing additional regulatory lucidity in the case of digital currencies. He revealed that, even now, there is urgency for the country to discuss the basic nature of cryptocurrency though it is normally called a currency, as it utilizes a financial asset or tool that usually deals with the investment instead of being a payment channel.

As per a previously active senior lawyer of Deloitte CIS, along with being Alfacash’s director Nikita Soshnikov, this industry’s practical implementations will narrowly include only the tax obligations and business registration with a definite amount of authorized recognition, making it a legal business. In January, Russia publicly announced a fundamental structure for the regulation of cryptocurrencies such as BTC (Bitcoin), which was a portion of the general law covering the financial assets of the digital nature restricting the utilization of crypto for payments.

Whereas to formally regulate the crypto investment, there were no clear regulations provided by the law in terms of several distinct aspects of the crypto industry like mining, taxation, rules to owe, and report about the crypto holdings, as well as many others. Duma passed a unique bill for crypto taxation in February, demanding the citizens to report their crypto transactions cumulatively exceeding $7,800 annually. In August, an authoritative statement was published by the Russian Federation’s Judges-Council, describing the rights of Russian Judges to possess crypto. The officials explicitly directed the native judges not to hold cryptocurrencies because they are considered to be external financial instruments under the legal code.