Central African Republic Compliance Report

Regulatory Overview

Regulatory Status

Dedicated crypto/VA legislation, licensing regime, active enforcement

Key Regulator(s)

National Agency for the Regulation of Virtual Assets, Ministry of Digital Economy, Banking Commission of Central Africa, UMAC Ministerial Committee

Primary Legislation

Loi n° 22.004 du 22 avril 2022 made crypto-assets legal tender alongside the CFA, No Règlement n° 01/17/CEMAC/UMAC/CM of 30 March 2017 exists; CEMAC AML/CFT law r, The Central African Republic is bound by CEMAC community law, which prevails ove, The Central African Republic has no Loi n° 00-010 of 8 May 2000 on money launder, The Central African Republic created no National Agency for the Regulation of Vi, The Central African Republic's cryptocurrency statute is Loi n° 22.004 du 22 avr, The tokenisation law adopted on 29 May 2023 authorises bitcoin and sango in the, shortly after CAR's Bitcoin law

Travel Rule

Adopted — Threshold: Implemented

Tax Reporting

The Central African cryptocurrency statute is Loi n° 22.004 du 22 avril 2022 régissant la cryptomonnaie en République Centrafricaine, not a Law n° 22.001 of 27 April 2022; it never displaced the franc CFA, and the National Assembly amended it on 23 March 2023 to delete the obligation on economic agents to accept cryptocurrency.. Loi n° 22.004 du 22 avril 2022 does carry tax rules: article 8 exempts cryptocurrency exchanges from tax and article 16 taxes the profit realised by the trader, while article 7 allows tax to be paid in cryptocurrency through platforms recognised by the State; the Code général des impôts supplies everything else and mentions no digital asset.. Article 8 of Loi n° 22.004 du 22 avril 2022 expressly provides that exchanges in cryptocurrency are not subject to tax in the Central African Republic, and article 16 taxes the profit made by the trader, so the absence of tax on an exchange follows from an express statutory exemption rather than from bitcoin's former legal-tender treatment.. Loi n° 22.004 du 22 avril 2022 applies to cryptomonnaies generically — article 4 defines a cryptomonnaie as a peer-to-peer digital currency issued without a central bank and recorded on a blockchain — so the article 8 exemption of exchanges and the article 16 tax on trader profits cover assets other than bitcoin on identical terms.. General CGT for Businesses/Investment: For businesses, gains from the disposal of assets (including potential intangible assets like non-Bitcoin cryptos if they are part of a business's portfolio) are typically integrated into corporate income and taxed at the corporate income tax rate.

Key Facts

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