Cryptocurrency Entrepreneurs to Get Permanent Residency: El Salvador President Nayib Bukele

President Bukele also promoted El Salvador's "great weather, world class surfing beaches, beach front properties for sale."

By Edited by Gadgets 360 Newsdesk | Updated: 8 June 2021 15:04 IST

Cryptocurrency Entrepreneurs to Get Permanent Residency: El Salvador President Nayib Bukele

President Bukele is offering incentives to attract more crypto investors to El Salvador

Highlights

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele tweeted on the attractive incentives
He was responding to entrepreneur Justin Sun's tweet
El Salvador will make Bitcoin legal tender

Bitcoin investors won't face any capital gains tax, immediate permanent residency for cryptocurrency entrepreneurs — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's incentives for the crypto community has attracted attention from investors and entrepreneurs alike, following his recent announcement to make Bitcoin a legal tender in the country. Retweeting cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun's tweet, “Crypto investors and entrepreneurs will start to move to El Salvador!", President Bukele listed out four perks and privileges, especially for the cryptocurrency community, for those who wish to move to El Salvador. The other reasons include the absence of property tax as well as "great weather, world class surfing beaches, beach front properties for sale."

The tweet comes a couple days after President Bukele announced that El Salvador will be making the cryptocurrency a legal tender. This will make it the first country to be accepting Bitcoin as a legal national currency. At the time of writing, Bitcoin price in India stood at over Rs. 24.14 lakhs.

If President Bukele's ambitions to make Bitcoin an official currency were to be successful, it would also ensure his promise of there being no capital gains tax on the cryptocurrency, since it would no longer be simply an asset but an official national currency of El Salvador. A move like this is anticipated to create major waves in the global economic framework.

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1. Great weather, world class surfing beaches, beach front properties for sale.
2. One of the few countries in the world with no property tax.
3. No capital gains tax for #Bitcoin, since it will be a legal currency.
4. Immediate permanent residence for crypto entrepreneurs. https://t.co/j3eugJQCMd
— Nayib Bukele ???????? (@nayibbukele) June 6, 2021

President Bukele's tweet received an enthusiastic response from investors and entrepreneurs like cryptocurrency platform Tron founder Justin Sun, and Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance.

Amazing! Packing now! pic.twitter.com/rTw99zhANz
— Justin Sun ???? (@justinsuntron) June 7, 2021

While Sun tweeted "Amazing! Packing now!", Zhao posted a GIF of Mickey Mouse packing clothes into a trunk, with the caption "Enticing."

Enticing. ????⛱️ pic.twitter.com/c7mvu07v7R
— CZ ???? Binance (@cz_binance) June 7, 2021

El Salvador's decision comes as a welcome relief to the cryptocurrency community, especially after China recently banned Chinese banks and financial institutions from offering any service concerning cryptocurrency transactions.

Closer home, the Reserve Bank of India recently clarified that the April 2018 circular is no longer valid following the Supreme Court order on March 4, 2020.

In the April circular, lenders regulated by the RBI were banned from "providing any service in relation to virtual currencies including those of transfer or receipt of money in accounts relating to the purchase or sale of virtual currencies."

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