Canadian crypto firms to have new reporting rules by 2026

In its 2024 budget, the Canadian government announced it would soon implement the international crypto reporting framework for the Canadian crypto sector.

In its annual budget for 2024, Canada’s government has listed several new measures and rules for the country’s crypto space. As a result, the Canadian crypto sector will soon see new reporting rules, likely by 2026. These rules pertain to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) international crypto framework. The annual budget document described the reporting rules in detail.

It mentioned stablecoins, non-fungible tokens, and other crypto assets and their regulation. The document then stated how the OECD’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) helps in exchanging crypto tax information.

Once the CARF comes into force in Canada, crypto-asset service providers will have to file annual crypto tax reports with the Canada Revenue Agency. The document included crypto exchanges, crypto ATM operators, and crypto-asset dealers and brokers under this rule.

It also mentioned a key exception to this rule: “Reportable crypto-assets would exclude central bank digital currencies and specified electronic money products (e.g., digital representations of fiat currencies), which would be reportable under the amendments to the CRS described below.”

This exception is important since the Bank of Canada invited suggestions on a Canadian digital currency earlier.

Nevertheless, the common reporting standard will include the values of transactions and exchanges between fiat currencies and crypto assets. Further, Canadian crypto firms will have to report crypto to crypto exchanges as well. On the other hand, crypto payments for goods valued at more than $50,000 will also come under its purview.

The new crypto tax reporting framework developments come a few months after another event. In February 2024, numbers revealed crypto firms had seen the highest investments in the Canadian fintech industry.

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