RUSSIAN POLITICIANS PROPOSED TO FORMALLY ADOPT BITCOIN AS A METHOD OF PAYMENT IN THE COUNTRY

After the boom in the legalization of bitcoin as a payment method in Japan, these days have been loaded with news related to the Japanese decree that says transactions with cryptomonedas will be exempt from value added tax (VAT).

Well, now in Russia politicians want to follow in the footsteps of the Japanese country, since several authorities have proposed to the Central Bank of Russia the legal adoption of bitcoin as payment method.

In this sense, according to a review of the local media Vedomosti, Boris Titov, Presidential Commissioner for the Rights of Entrepreneurs in the country, formally proposed the Central Bank of Russia adopt the model of Japan to legalize cryptoactive in the Russian territory as a form of payment , Highlighting the implementation of some measures that support such an example, stories such as mandatory registration of customers, audits to the exchanges by the authorities, customer protection and the decree of transactions with free cryptoactive taxes value added.

On the other hand, according to the Vestido information source, several politicians from the Leningrad region sent formal requests to the top bank in Russia with the aim of legalizing the use of bitcoin in border areas.

Among the authorities may be mentioned Vladimir Petrov, deputy in the Legislative Assembly of Leningrad, who expressed through the portal Abc of the adoption of the cryptoactive number will strengthen the economic development and development of Russian districts that delimit with countries and Countries Use of bitcoin is more widespread (this is the case of Estonia, a country that shares border with the Russian districts of Kingiseppsky and Slantsvesky) as its implementation recharges visitors with the acquisition of products and services; This is not what many tourists usually do not count on Russian rubles.

In addition, Petrov added that visitors from countries where cryptoactive is used to carry out their economic activities in Russia using bitcoin as payment method if there are exchange points, commercial premises and services that accept them, which Turn would attract more tourists, and all that strengthen cross-border trade.

These statements constitute a breakthrough, given that Russia has so far been quite reluctant about cryptones. However, it must be said that increasingly open to the blockchain ecosystem, given that even its president has targeted Ethereum.