Practical tips on how to legally optimize taxes when selling a crypt – Early Birds

Peter Varga, founder and partner of Highgate Law & Tax, the 2023 and 2024 Tax Law Firm of the Year, will guide you through:

• more practical tips on how to legally reduce the tax burden on income from the sale of cryptos, especially for FOs;
• by setting boundaries beyond which optimisation could be considered illegal or even a criminal offence of tax and insurance evasion;
• comparing a number of foreign jurisdictions, both EU and non-EU, in terms of taxation and how they can be used in practice;
• an infrastructure for the exchange of information between tax authorities and exchanges; and
• and other practical tips.

As a tax and legal advisor, Peter Varga has been dealing with the topic of cryptocurrencies from a regulatory and tax point of view for a long time. In October 2024, he lectured on the topics of taxation of cryptoassets and their regulation also in the context of foreign structures at the largest tax and legal conference devoted to cryptoassets in Slovakia, organized by Highgate Group(more information here). At the same time, as part of the Highgate Group, Peter has helped to establish several Slovak or foreign crypto funds, advises on tax and legal-tax structuring of business and asset protection and represents clients as an attorney in tax proceedings. In addition to client work and his own conferences, Peter is a guest speaker, writes articles and is active in legislative processes such as:

• initiative to avoid double taxation on the receipt of crypto-assets for goods or services sold (eventually effective from 2025)
• advocated for different types of shares in SICAVs
• making the distribution of so-called small funds to non-professional investors more flexible;
• assisting in the preparation of the NBS methodological instruction on funds; or
• Non-taxation of staking initiative (effective eventually from 2025).

For more information on the Highgate Group’ s activities in this area, please click here:

1. Crypto and legal and tax structures
2. Tax and levy optimisation