Nuts and bolts of how cryptos and digital assets will be taxed this year, and the challenges

moneycontrol.com:

There has been a spike in dealings related to virtual digital assets (VDAs) in recent times. Further, a market is emerging where payment for the transfer of a VDA can be made through another such asset. Hence, tax authorities have introduced a new scheme for the taxability of such transfers:

Taxability of virtual digital assets 

Withholding of taxes

The Finance Act 2022 has introduced Section 194S with effect from 1 July 2022, which provides for withholding of TDS at 1 percent on payment for transfer of VDA to a resident.

However, in case the payment for such a transfer is (i) wholly in kind or in exchange of another VDA where there is no part in cash; or

(ii) partly in cash and partly in kind, but the part in cash is not sufficient to meet the TDS liability in respect of the whole of such transfer, the person before making the payment has to ensure that tax has been paid in respect of such consideration.

Further, no tax is to be deducted in case the payer is a specified person and the aggregate value of consideration to a resident does not exceed Rs 50,000 during the financial year. In any other case, the said limit is proposed to be Rs 10,000 during the financial year. A specified person here means an individual or HUF: (a) whose total sales, gross receipts or turnover from the business carried on by him or profession exercised by him does not exceed Rs 1 crore in case of business or Rs 50 lakh in case of profession, during the financial year immediately preceding the financial year in which such VDA is transferred; and (b) not having any income under the head “profits and gains of business or profession”.

The section does not deal with payment to non-residents. Payments to non-residents on account of transfer of VDA would