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Today in crypto, the Italian government is considering raising the capital gains tax on Bitcoin to a massive 42% in 2025, the token sale for the Trump family’s crypto platform raised a paltry 3.4% of its $300 million goal on its first day, and Coinbase and Glassnode said the crypto market has “dramatically” matured this year.
Italy considers raising capital gains tax on Bitcoin to 42% from 26% The Italian government is considering increasing the capital gains tax for investments in Bitcoin BTC tickers down $67,629 to 42% from 26%, according to Deputy Economy Minister Maurizio Leo.
Speaking at a news conference at Palazzo Chigi on Oct. 16, Leo commented on Italy’s new budget bill, which the Council of Ministers approved.
The minister said the withholding tax on Bitcoin capital gains should rise to 42% according to the budget bill.
Leo also said that the bill would remove the minimum revenue requirement for Italy’s “web tax,” or the Digital Services Tax (DST), which was introduced as part of the country’s budget in 2019.
The DST now applies to companies that generated at least 750 million euros ($817 million) in the past calendar year and at least 5.5 million euros ($5.9 million) in revenue from operating digital services in Italy.
As previously reported by Cointelegraph, Italy’s Senate increased the capital gains tax on crypto asset trading over 2,000 euros to 26% in late 2022 as part of its approved budget for 2023.
Trump platform’s crypto token sale flatlines at $10 million The first-day token sales for the Trump family-backed World Liberty Financial crypto project fell flat as it sold just over 3.4% of the $300 million tokens allocated for public sale amid its site crashing.
WLFI, the platform’s token, went live on Oct. 15 with 20 billion tokens priced at 1.5 cents each up for public grabs, but only 687 million, around $10.3 million worth