Topic: Mining tax in Kazakhstan - page 2. (Read 256 times)
This might even be just them trying to look like they're doing something to anyone looking in. Unless they're selling electricity at a loss, there's not really an economic reason for doing something like this (there might be a political one to make it look like they're against crypto mining). Constant electricity usage (for example by running mining hardware) is much cheaper to supply than fluctuating usage - that's why some countries make off peak/night and holidays electricity cheaper if they can track it.
https://coinspot.io/law/asia-and-africa/minenergo-kazahstana-prokommentirovalo-zakon-o-nalogooblozhenii-majnerov/
"We are talking about an additional payment in the amount of 1 tenge for 1 kW of consumed electricity. The law will come into effect next year."
1 tenge = 0.0023 dollars
In this interview it was said that the price of 1 kilowatt of electricity in Kazakhstan: " In some regions there are rates of $ 0.03-0.04, influential people are able to get a price of $ 0.02."
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/interview-crypto-business-in-kazakhstan-5313966
I think this is a very small tax.
"We are talking about an additional payment in the amount of 1 tenge for 1 kW of consumed electricity. The law will come into effect next year."
1 tenge = 0.0023 dollars
In this interview it was said that the price of 1 kilowatt of electricity in Kazakhstan: " In some regions there are rates of $ 0.03-0.04, influential people are able to get a price of $ 0.02."
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/interview-crypto-business-in-kazakhstan-5313966
I think this is a very small tax.
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