{"id":484291,"date":"2025-09-04T14:52:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/crypto-taxes-in-india-explained-what-traders-need-to-know-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T14:52:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:52:51","slug":"crypto-taxes-in-india-explained-what-traders-need-to-know-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/crypto-taxes-in-india-explained-what-traders-need-to-know-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto taxes in India, explained: What traders need to know in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS9zdG9yYWdlL3VwbG9hZHMvdmlldy9kMGExYjU3NzU3OGNmOTQwOGUxYjdiYmE5NzI3NDgzNy5qcGc=.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/>\n                    <\/p>\n<p>What is India\u2019s levy crypto tax, and how does it apply across various types of transactions, such as trading, selling or spending your crypto?<\/p>\n\n<p data-ct-widget=\"explained-block-content\">\n<\/p><p><em>For the financial year 2024-2025, Indian tax law treats cryptocurrencies as virtual digital assets (VDAs) under the Income Tax Act, 1961. Section 2(47A) spells out what that means: Any code, number, token or piece of information created through cryptography counts as a VDA. The only exception is money itself \u2014 Indian rupees or any other country\u2019s fiat currency.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>VDAs include cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/bitcoin-price\">BTC<\/a>) and Ether (<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/ethereum-price\">ETH<\/a>), as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/learn\/articles\/what-are-nfts-and-why-are-they-revolutionizing-the-art-world\">non-fungible tokens (NFTs)<\/a> and similar digital tokens. While it is legal to buy, sell and hold VDAs, they are not recognized as valid payment methods.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/explained\/crypto-taxes-in-india-explained-what-traders-need-to-know-in-2025\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is India\u2019s levy crypto tax, and how does it apply across various types of transactions, such as trading, selling or spending your crypto? For the financial year 2024-2025, Indian tax law treats cryptocurrencies as virtual digital assets (VDAs) under the Income Tax Act, 1961. Section 2(47A) spells out what that means: Any code, number, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":484292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-484291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}