{"id":629289,"date":"2026-07-14T17:53:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/uk-government-defers-capital-gains-on-certain-crypto-with-no-gain-no-loss-approach\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:53:46","slug":"uk-government-defers-capital-gains-on-certain-crypto-with-no-gain-no-loss-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/uk-government-defers-capital-gains-on-certain-crypto-with-no-gain-no-loss-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"UK government defers capital gains on certain crypto with \u2018no gain, no loss\u2019 approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/hi-crypto-capital-gains-tax-italy-vs-france-vs-germany.jpg\" alt=\"UK government defers capital gains on certain crypto with \u2018no gain, no loss\u2019 approach\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The change in tax policy, expected to impact about 700,000 people in the UK, was related to the disposal of crypto in lending and liquidity pools.<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s tax authority announced that it planned to treat \u201ccertain disposals\u201d related to cryptocurrency lending and liquidity pools as transactions that would effectively defer the country\u2019s capital gains requirements.<\/p>\n<p>In a Monday announcement, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/cryptoasset-loans-and-liquidity-pools\/tax-treatment-of-cryptoasset-loans-and-liquidity-pools\">said<\/a> that starting on April 6, 2027, it would adopt a \u201cno gain, no loss\u201d approach to disposals involving crypto loans and liquidity pools. According to the tax authority, this measure would defer capital gains tax on digital assets \u201cuntil an economic disposal.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis measure will support fairness in the tax system,\u201d said the UK tax authority. \u201cIt aligns the tax treatment more closely with the economics of these arrangements by ensuring that gains and losses are generally recognized only when the participant makes an economic disposal of the cryptoassets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/uk-government-capital-gains-lending-liquidity-no-gain-no-loss\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The change in tax policy, expected to impact about 700,000 people in the UK, was related to the disposal of crypto in lending and liquidity pools. The UK\u2019s tax authority announced that it planned to treat \u201ccertain disposals\u201d related to cryptocurrency lending and liquidity pools as transactions that would effectively defer the country\u2019s capital gains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":629294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-629289","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\/629289","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=629289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}