Union Budget 2022 laid the foundation and gave a blueprint of the economy for the next 25 years – from India at 75 to India at 100, with the focus on fast-tracking the economy, providing opportunities to businesses, and creating six million new jobs.

Among the range of significant announcements, the reforms on Digital currency finally caught everyone’s attention.

With the tremendous increase in transactions of virtual digital assets worldwide, the Indian Government in the Budget 2022 has proposed to launch digital rupee by the central bank in FY 2022-23. It also plans to tax income from digital asset transfers at 30%.

The introduction of these reforms clearly is a big boost to the digital economy. The government providing the basic infrastructure and rails for CBDC will lead to a more efficient and cheaper currency management system. All this will eventually lead to elimination of cash to a great extent and promote all such digital assets in future.

Further to increase its adoption in future, the regulatory authorities should incentivize players/stakeholders in the payments ecosystem for building the required infrastructure.