RBI looking to ban crypto in India but requires Global collaboration to achieve the agenda.
Highlights
- Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Finance Minister, wants to ban Crypto in India.
- RBI require international collaboration to achieve a crypto ban.
- Crypto are always been global and it requires the global body to regulate them.
- RBI has stated that crypto has a negative effect on the Indian Economy.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in response to a query in Lok Sabha that cryptocurrency should be banned or regulated in India as it has an adverse effect on the Indian economy.
She further added that to ban or regulate crypto, it has to be a global collaboration or effort as crypto is a global object.
Crypto is a global asset as it can be transferred and used as a monetary exchange in any country in the world.
To regulate cryptocurrency, the Global body needs to emerge and manage the crypto around the world. The global body will understand its implications and implement them all around the world.
If only India bans cryptocurrency, it will have a negative effect on the economy of India. F
M also said that crypto is bad not because it can’t be monitored properly but it is bad because it gives false hope that you will profit or get a high return and that is not good for the citizens and the economy of India.
During the 2022 Budget speech, FM Nirmala Sitharaman announced the 1% TDS on all crypto transactions and a 30% income on all the income from crypto with no option of showing losses.
To read more about the budget by Union click here.
FM Sitharaman knows that India is investing and seeing a future in Crypto but it is too risky and provides false info and expectation about high returns.
RBI has always been against crypto but they have not made any harsh moves like making them illegal like China has done last year.
RBI is always showing the bad side of Crypto investment but has not made them illegal yet. India is doing a long approach of involving other countries and making a global body for regulations.
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