{"id":52464,"date":"2021-11-08T09:58:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T07:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=52464"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:21:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:21:53","slug":"russian-authorities-back-plan-to-classify-mining-as-entrepreneurial-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/russian-authorities-back-plan-to-classify-mining-as-entrepreneurial-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian authorities back plan to classify mining as entrepreneurial activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives of several ministries supported the initiative to regulate mining as a form of entrepreneurial activity. <a href=\"https:\/\/iz.ru\/1242907\/evgenii-kuznetcov\/dobytchik-v-zakone-vlasti-vystupili-za-priznanie-mainerov-predprinimateliami\">\u00ab\u0418\u0437\u0432\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0438\u044f\u00bb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Economic Development believes that recognizing mining as entrepreneurial activity will allow taxing the income from cryptocurrency mining. The ministry is currently discussing regulation of this activity with business.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;This is precisely the arena in which the state can reap its benefit in the form of taxes, and people can legalize their incomes; large business is also increasingly interested in this,&#8221; said Alexei Minaev, deputy head of the ministry&#8217;s Department for the Development of the Digital Economy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Ministry of Energy also supports recognizing mining as entrepreneurial activity. The department considers that a user should report the nature of the load consumed on the electrical system at the stage of connection to it.<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Ministry said that mining-related issues should be considered in the context of forming a legal framework in the field of digital currencies.<\/p>\n<p>In the Central Bank, however, the idea of regulating cryptocurrency mining is not supported, as the regulator opposes any \u00abinitiatives that promote the emergence of monetary surrogates\u00bb. In the central bank not once <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bank-of-russia-opposes-use-of-unclear-bitcoin\">classified<\/a> Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Mining in Russia is not currently prohibited, and its clear regulation has not been codified.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, with the idea of registering cryptocurrency mining as a form of entrepreneurship, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/aksakov-proposes-registering-mining-as-a-form-of-entrepreneurial-activity\">advocated<\/a> Anatoly Aksakov, head of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market.<\/p>\n<p>In October, with <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/irkutsk-governor-complains-to-government-about-illegal-miners\">an analogous proposal<\/a> to the government, Igor Kobzev, the governor of Irkutsk Oblast, appealed, citing rising electricity consumption due to &#8220;underground miners.&#8221; The entrepreneurs of Irkutsk Oblast proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/irkutsk-region-entrepreneurs-push-for-special-tariffs-for-miners\">to develop special electricity tariffs<\/a> for those engaged in cryptocurrency mining.<\/p>\n<p>In October, the Ministry of Energy <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russias-energy-ministry-miners-will-not-be-charged-residential-electricity-tariffs\">stated<\/a> that miners would not consume electricity under residential tariffs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives of several ministries backed the initiative to regulate mining as a form of entrepreneurial activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,36,27],"class_list":["post-52464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-regulation","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52466,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52464\/revisions\/52466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}