man, I confess that I'm shocked by this news, I didn't know it was possible to pay tax for something illegal, how could that be possible?
The whole state of India is confused, the country is divided because the stakeholders are having different clique, half want it to be legalized and the other part wants it to be banned, they both are pushing to pass/deny the bill for bitcoin freedom that's why we are seeing different headlines about bitcoin ban and taxes from India.
they are becoming a joke with these attitudes, why don't they decide right away what they want? if they don't like bitcoin just put laws that guarantee people won't use bitcoin to commit crimes and let people choose whether or not they want to use bitcoin, they look like dictation governments disguised as democratic
Have you read the 2022 report of crypto crime analysis? you can find everything from Chainanalysis
[1], You will come to the conclusion that India is just a minor in Bitcoin crimes. The money the government has been printing has its bad side too, they should allow people to do whatever they want it freedom(bitcoin).
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https://go.chainalysis.com/rs/503-FAP-074/images/Crypto-Crime-Report-2022.pdf