How to Legally Optimize Taxes on Cryptocurrency

Petr Varga’s Training Session
Video recording of the webinar

Topic: Practical Tips for Legally Optimizing Taxes When Selling Cryptocurrency
Format: Webinar
Speaker: Peter Varga (Highgate Group)

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 stock exchanges;
• and other practical tips.

As a tax and legal advisor, Peter Varga has long been focusing on the topic of cryptocurrencies from a regulatory and tax perspective. In October 2024, he spoke on the taxation and regulation of cryptoassets—including in the context of offshore structures—at the largest tax and legal conference dedicated to cryptoassets in Slovakia, organized by the Highgate Group (more information here). Additionally, as part of the Highgate Group, Peter has helped establish several Slovak and foreign crypto funds, provides advice on taxes and legal-tax structuring of business operations and asset protection, and, as an attorney, represents clients in tax proceedings. In addition to his client work and his own conferences, Peter gives guest lectures, 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