Will The Revolution Be Tokenized: Governments, Blockchain, And The Digital Space Race
In 2015 The Economist magazine hailed blockchain as “the trust machine”, capable of replacing governance structures, displacing institutions, and bringing a new level of transparency to transactions and information, with implications across public life. In the years since, the technology has produced trillion-dollar decentralized financial ...
Everledger CEO Leanne Kemp discusses the advantages and potential dangers of blockchain and gives her perspective on how the OECD can help ensure the benefits this technology can bring to reach as many people in the world as possible.
Taxing Virtual Currencies: An Overview of Tax Treatments and Emerging Tax Policy Issues
Crypto-assets, and virtual currencies in particular, are in rapid development and tax policymakers are still at an early stage in considering their implications. G20 Leaders and Finance Ministers have called international organisations to analyse the risks posed by crypto-assets. So far, the tax policy and evasion implications have been largely unexplored, although forming an important aspect of the overall regulatory framework.
The Global Blockchain Policy Forum is the leading international event focused on the policy implications of this technology and its applications, led by the OECD’s Blockchain Policy Centre. The third edition of the Global Blockchain Policy Forum in 2020 convened government ministers and senior policy makers, industry leaders, academics and other stakeholders across 43 sessions.
