Subsequent Thursday, October 16, 2025, the Congress of Deputies of Spain will debate and vote on an modification offered by the Vox occasion to reject and return to the Authorities the invoice that transposes the eighth Administrative Cooperation Directive (DAC8) of the European Union, which will increase surveillance and permits the seizure of bitcoin (BTC) and different digital belongings in Spain.
The Spanish political occasion Vox argues that this initiative might cover a “tax reform” hidden by amendments unrelated to the unique textual content, which might enable the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Staff Occasion) manipulate the legislative course of to introduce tax adjustments not associated to the European directive.
The rules, aligned with the Crypto Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) of the OECD (Group for Financial Cooperation and Growth), search to accentuate fiscal management over transactions and balances in digital belongings.
Its goal is to facilitate the automated change of data between authorities. all this permits the seizure of bitcoin and different digital belongings by the Tax Company (Treasury) in circumstances of tax money owed, with obligatory implementation beginning in 2026.
The regulation promotes regulatory adjustments to bolster the reporting obligations of cryptoasset suppliers and set up larger management over belongings overseas, together with balances. It modifies as much as 4 Spanish legal guidelines, as reported by the Spanish media Bolsamaní.
In that sense, the opposition of Vox highlights issues about privateness and overregulation within the digital belongings sectorin a context of accelerating worldwide scrutiny to fight tax evasion.
Esteban Rivero, a finance and tax specialist generally known as CeroUno en X, instructed CriptoNoticias that “DAC8 is a European directive, that’s, you can not escape from it.” He defined that “in the long run, the Member States of the European Union themselves have the duty to transpose this directive.”
Rivero added that if a Spanish consumer has bitcoin and cryptocurrencies on a overseas change like Kraken in Eire, the data “would attain the Spanish Treasury” by way of the Irish Income Company. This data circulation will likely be prolonged globally by CARF.
Specialists equivalent to José Antonio Bravo have identified the truth that “The Treasury might already seize funds in digital belongings which are deposited with a service supplier.” Nonetheless, you see that now, with the transposition of DAC8, it solely reaffirms its attachability with out the provider with the ability to refuse.
The DAC8 seeks to “limit anonymity in transactions with bitcoin and cryptocurrencies to keep away from tax evasion,” added Bravo. The nations of the European Union have till December 31, 2025 to adapt their rules.
