Spending crypto on goods or services in France

You may need to pay Capital Gains Tax if you make a gain when you ‘dispose’ of cryptoasset tokens (also known as cryptocurrency) by: selling them exchanging them for a different type of cryptoasset using them to pay for goods or services

Q14. Will I recognize a gain or loss if I pay someone with virtual currency for providing me with a service? A14. Yes. If you pay for a service using virtual currency that you hold as a capital asset, then you have exchanged a capital asset for that service and will have a capital gain or loss. For more information on capital gains and capital losses, see Publication 544, Sales and Other Dispositions of Assets .

the transfer of the acquired asset to a third party for valuable consideration constitutes a sale. An exchange of crypto-assets for units of a government-issued currency (such as euros), for goods or services or for other crypto-assets is therefore a sale.

Later in the year, Dave used crypto-assets to purchase goods in a local café. This use of crypto-assets is a disposal for CGT purposes upon which Dave must calculate the gain arising, declare the gain to Revenue by filing a tax return and pay any CGT arising.

Disposing of cryptoassets Ways of disposing of cryptoassets can include: selling cryptoassets for money exchanging one cryptoasset for another type of cryptoasset using cryptoassets to pay for goods or services giving away cryptoassets to another person.

暗号資産を売却又は使用することにより生ずる利益については、事業所得等の各種所得の基因となる行為に付随して生じる場合を除き、原則として、雑所得に区分され所得税の確定申告が必要となります。