DEVA Party to Turkish Crypto: 'Chill, Those Tax Rumors Are Just Old Draft Dust'

Turkey's crypto community can exhale a bit—just not too hard, you know, wouldn't want to trigger some hidden tax clause. The DEVA Party has stepped in to clarify that those viral social media claims about new crypto tax regulations? Not quite accurate. Classic FUD cycle, really.

DEVA Party Deputy Chairman Sadullah Kısacık set the record straight with the energy of someone who'd rather not explain this again: the draft law on crypto taxation that everyone's buzzing about was literally the first version shared. You know, the one that gets written, immediately gets roasted, and then gets tossed in the regulatory drawer? Those specific articles everyone's freaking out over? Outdated. The government already pulled those sections from the proposal, and they never even made it to discussion in the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM). Dead on arrival.

For the Planning and Budget Committee members like Kısacık, there's been zero sight of any fresh draft bill. They're out here doing actual committee work while crypto Twitter runs wild with PDFs from who-knows-when. All the current chatter is based on old documents gathering dust somewhere in a government office, probably next to the 2019 crypto regulation that was also gonna "kill" the industry. So yeah, maybe everyone can calm down a little. Or at least wait for actual legislation before panic-buying VPNs.

*This is not investment advice.