Reading through the middle of the article it sounded promising (.."still accepts it for trade ... including real estate"), but then at the end comes the chilling part: " As soon as you make a currency (error: what they meant is payment) in Bitcoin, the system transfers into fiat, which is the currency that is issued by the government and regulated by the central bank".
So, the mistery is still there: when exactly the conversion (a taxable event) takes place? Before or after the transfer of ownership of property? If before , then it is you who performed a taxable event. You haven't purchased a︀ property for bitcoin.
100% agree here.
Funny to hear when︁ someone advertise reception payment in crypto, but in fact is it still goes with fiat︂ and 'hide' tax obligation because of liquidation crypto on the buyer side before transfer of︃ ownership.
the quality of DAMAC's buildings is trash. DP (Dubai properties) and meraas are way better and you get what you paid for specially with DP.
what DAMAC is doing is jut a PR stunt, they are not offering anything special, if you have crypto, go to coinsfera and sell your crypto there and get cash, then take that cash and buy the property that you want from a good developer not a shitty one. Done. it's that easy.
coinsfera realistic cash limit ?
Do you have experience with that ??
Like If you want to buy villa in Palm Jumeirah , Villa cost in millions , Do they provide that much of cash?
and The︀ seller of Palm Jumeirah Villa accept that much of amount in cash ???
You get cash for crypto, no tax in Dubai as it is capital gains. Then you buy the property for cash and pay all gov fees related. Done.
There are other places which are like that too, not just Emirates.
Panama for example 😉 which has 0 capital gains as well.
If the buyer does want Bitcoin, no fiat will be involved. I got an offer to buy a︀ pretty nice house in Argentina where the seller explicitly wanted Bitcoin last year.
Nobody questioned the fact about no taxes in Dubai. The problem at hand is: how will the home country of someone who is a non-(tax)-resident of Dubai buying real estate in it "for btc" treat the fact that btc gets exchanged to fiat (therefore creating a tax event from the reference frame of the home country) *prior to* transfer of ownership of that real estate.
very simple. Your home country rules will apply on top of Dubai.
Do you realize cap gains? You will pay cap gain tax according to your countries rules from exchanging lets say 10btc into around︀ 300k$.
If you bought bitcoin this april and are now down 50%, no cap gains︁ apply.
Investing overseas does not somehow do any magic or allow you another treatment in︂ your country. (with exceptions, depends on your residence / citizenship)
DP is ok with both options (resident or not), but bear in mind that it's the bank that you need to take care of.
And for non resident mortgages, you generally need to have an employee/self employed salary for about 7000 USD and by law you need to put between between 25 to 30% as a down payment. in the real world, you need to put up to 50% of the property value. Some people manage to put up way less than that, but these people have a proven track record︀ in the UAE and they generally pay their loans on time.
So you want to say that I can come to EMAAR office and buy any flat/villa/hotel and so on for ETH/BTC for example? And they will not ask from where this coins?
Coinsfera is 3% and if you are a good frequent client 2% are possible as well. Downside is cash only - so the moiney is pretty much limited to the local UAE market.
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