In Russia, they can introduce VAT on mining equipment for mining

The Ministry of Finance of Russia proposed to clarify the procedure for taxing mining equipment and the provision of computing power for mining. The bill developed by the department says that if the Russian company rents mining equipment or provides real time mining capacities in real time, it will have to pay VAT from these operations. He writes about that RBC Crypto.

Previously, there was no clear explanation in the legislation on how to tax such transactions, which is why uncertainty arose. The bill of the Ministry of Finance will eliminate this uncertainty on the issue of VAT in the provision of infrastructure for mining by Russian taxpayers.

“It is proposed to establish that VAT will be calculated by the Russian taxpayer when leasing mining infrastructure, as well as when providing real -time computing power for mining in real time,” the department said.

According to the Federal Tax Service (Federal Tax Service) on April 1, in Russia there were 606 registered miners and 116 operators of mining infrastructure (OMI) – companies that provide areas, equipment and everything necessary for cryptocurrency mining in their data centers (centers).

A year ago, the director of the industrial mining Association Sergei Nerdelov noted that if industrial mining enters the legal field, then tax revenues can amount to 50 billion rubles. Every year after 2025, starting from the moment the first profit is received. The real figures of tax revenues are still unclear: this week, April 25 was the last day of receiving the first tax returns of miners on income tax.

As the First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and the Communications of the State Duma Anton Tkachev at the Blockchain Forum 2025 conference, the mining industry is just starting to pay taxes, and now there will be the first check, how much it “can be disciplined”.

“The comparison period. How much should the state, taking into account the energy resources that go to mining, and how much miners paid, this will be one of the main decision -making factors regarding, from the point of view of simplicity, attitude to this industry, ”Tkachev said.

At the same time, six months ago, before the legalization of mining, the Minister of Finance of Russia Anton Siluanov stated that the department did not count on significant income from the introduction of cryptocurrencies in the legal field. It is important not income, but the possibility of using the extracted cryptocurrency for foreign trade calculations, then the head of the Ministry of Finance said.

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