Review of Literature on Taxability of Cryptocurrency

Abstract

Virtual Currency, Digital Currency, Crypto Asset, DLT(Distributed Ledger Technology) , Payment tokens, Virtual Asset, Bitcoin are some of the terms commonly used to denote the crypto currency without any standard common definition. These are all types of crypto assets developed initially in 2009. Bitcoin, Ethereum are some of the widely used crypto currencies. All around the world some countries have regularised this field, some are yet to regularise. The entire event is based on the concept of decentralisation or no need of a Central organ to control or monitor such currencies. The various articles published with different ideas regarding the taxability of such cryptocurrencies are analysed .