The impact of blockchain on finance and taxation
If it is legal tender, then it has no effect. For example, the non legal tender issued by the central bank is regarded as a financial asset. It has little impact on the tax system
it has a subversive potential impact on accounting practice. Those who try to cheat on tax should be careful. In theory, you can analyze those evasive behaviors that you have done at almost zero cost
if digital currency is widely accepted and can play the role of currency, it will weaken the effectiveness of monetary policy and bring difficulties to policy-making. Because digital currency issuers are usually unregulated third parties, money is created outside the banking system, and the amount of circulation depends entirely on the wishes of the issuers. As a result, the money supply is unstable. In addition, the authorities are unable to monitor the issuance and circulation of digital currency, which leads to the inability to accurately judge the economic operation and brings trouble to policy-making, At the same time, it will weaken the effectiveness of policy transmission and implementation
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various bill market businesses based on commercial bills are growing rapidly, and bill financing procts have become a hot field of Internet financing. However, about 70% of the current domestic bill business is still paper transactions, and supply chain finance also relies heavily on labor costs
in the future, if we realize the digital monetization of bills and adopt the blockchain transaction, we will make the bills, funds, financial planning and other related information more transparent. With the help of intelligent contract, we can generate an unforgeable, open and unique electronic contract between the borrower and the borrower, and directly realize the point-to-point value transfer, without the need for specific physical bills or central system for control and verification, It can prevent selling more than one vote, track the flow of funds in time, protect the rights of investors and rece the cost of regulators
this is understandable for accountants, but what does it mean for entrepreneurs? Well, anyone interested in starting or maintaining a successful business will need a competent accounting team. With the change of financial environment, the experience and insight that business accountants need will also change. Understanding this coming paradigm shift can better help entrepreneurs prove their organization in the future, and may even help them save money on business expenses related to accounting
overview of bitcoin modern accounting
the current financial paradigm regards bitcoin, Ethernet and all other cryptocurrencies as assets. In the United States, for example, any form of cryptocurrency is considered property, not money. Although the IRS recognizes that bitcoin can be used as a "medium of exchange", bitcoin is not classified as currency because it usually has the function of "unit of account and value storage space"
as a result of this classification, changes in the value and quantity of cryptocurrencies are taxed as capital gains or losses. Mining or buying a lot of bitcoin will lead to capital increase, which will make bitcoin subject to capital gains tax. The same is true for trading or selling cryptocurrency, as these events are treated as taxable capital gains and losses. Therefore, the accounting treatment of the holding amount of the comparative currency or other high-end stocks is roughly the same as that of other forms of equity (such as real estate or stocks)
forecast of bitcoin and accounting in the future
e to the legitimacy of blockchain and cryptocurrency in the financial sector, the accounting nature of bitcoin and other advanced currencies will also change. Although many potential changes are too far away to be accurately predicted, one aspect of accounting is bound to change dramatically, which will inevitably affect all entrepreneurs and business organizations. This aspect refers to audit
here's how blockchain and cryptocurrency are used to brutally disrupt the audit process, and what it means for companies that employ auditors? Because bitcoin is currently classified as the property that must pay capital gains tax, the audit method of its value is called immediate forensics analysis. However, the immediate verifiability of blockchain technology makes this audit method obsolete
when you track these changes and developments, please discuss with your organization's accountant or financial advisor. They can help you understand the further meaning of these events; In some cases, they can even show you what actions you can take to deal with these events, so as to increase your profits, rece your costs, and open up a new development path for your enterprise
on the other hand, if your accountants and auditors are at a loss about your research, consider updating your finance team.
blockchain can improve the way of data recording in audit. In the current network audit, although there is an early warning mechanism, it still needs auditors to judge and handle the abnormal records manually; Blockchain can automatically process the abnormal records through whether each node verifies and approves the block and the transaction information in it, whether the network node is attacked, and whether the account book of each node is complete, so as to make real-time audit possible. Auditors can directly access and query the effective information on the blockchain, judge whether the processing is reasonable and make corrections. In the blockchain, timestamps are used to record various transactions and operations, which can achieve historical traceability and tracking, and greatly improve the quality and efficiency of audit
blockchain can change the storage mode of audit data. In traditional audit, data are stored in an audit center server, which not only has the problems of high load and slow running speed, but also is vulnerable to attack; The blockchain audit system is a typical distributed storage, each node has the same backup, which can not only save the high cost and maintenance costs of the server, but also ensure the integrity of the data
semi public private chain can be used for audit. Blockchain can be divided into three forms: public chain, semi open private chain and full private chain. Considering the characteristics of audit instry, it is appropriate to adopt semi open private chain mode. For the audited units and enterprises, some trade secret information is not disclosed, but the pre selected nodes within the group decide the generation of the block. External suppliers can participate in the transaction but not the accounting process. Externally, it provides a third-party query node to query through the open API. In this way, it can not only ensure the internal privacy of the enterprise, but also enable the external auditors to implement real-time audit query.
2. In the field of clearing and settlement: different financial institutions have different infrastructure structures and business processes, involving many manual processes, which greatly increases business costs and is prone to errors. The application of blockchain technology, combined with the assets on the chain mentioned in the second point, can complete the point-to-point real-time clearing and settlement, so as to rece the cost of value transfer, shorten the time, improve efficiency, and both sides of the transaction can obtain good privacy protection
3. In the field of asset management, equity, bonds, bills and other assets are entrusted by different intermediaries, which increases the transaction cost of assets and brings the problem of forged vouchers. With the application of blockchain technology, this kind of assets can be digitized into digital assets on the chain. With the characteristics of irreversibility, non tampering and openness of blockchain, the efficiency of asset transaction can be improved and the cost of asset management can be reced
as the characteristics of blockchain are irreversible and tamperable, information security, point-to-point transaction transmission and decentralization make information reliable and traceable; In order to rece intermediate costs and improve efficiency, it is not only used in accounting and auditing, but also can be applied to all walks of life. Now we can see the mode of blockchain cooperation operation from behind the operation of all walks of life. Therefore, blockchain will widely and profoundly change the way of human life, so the whole life service will enter the era of blockchain. In the process of Internet development, blockchain + physical instry, blockchain e-commerce and blockchain community operation can be applied to blockchain technology.