Colombia’s National Directorate of Taxes and Customs (DIAN) just rolled out a new rule that puts crypto exchanges and digital asset services under the spotlight.
Now, these platforms have to gather and hand over detailed info on users and transactions to the tax authority. It’s a big move, and clearly, the government wants a tighter grip on the rapidly growing crypto scene.
With Resolution 000240, published December 24, 2025, DIAN expects both local and foreign platforms serving Colombians to report who owns which accounts, how much crypto changes hands, the number of units moved, market values, and net balances for assets like Bitcoin, Ether, and the usual stablecoins.
The rule kicked in right away. Still, exchanges don’t have to start submitting the full reports until the 2026 tax year. The first big nationwide data dump is due by the last business day of May 2027.
A Shift Toward Greater Transparency
Colombia is rolling out a new reporting system to shine a light on the digital asset world and crack down on tax evasion.
This is something officials care about even more now that crypto’s getting popular. Up to this point, crypto users had to report their own assets and gains on their taxes, but exchanges didn’t have to say anything.
Now, DIAN’s updated policy flips that. The tax authority can match up what people say on their returns with what exchanges actually report.
Officials say this move puts Colombia in line with international standards, especially the OECD’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework. Basically, it’s about countries sharing crypto transaction data to stop people from dodging taxes.
“This regulation is here to catch crypto activity that used to fly under the radar and pull it into the official tax system,” a DIAN spokesperson told local media.
Experts note that this will make crypto reporting look a lot more like what banks already do.
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Who Must Report and What Gets Shared
Resolution 000240 casts a wide net:
- It applies to crypto exchanges, the places where people buy, sell, and move digital assets.
- It also covers intermediaries that help process crypto transactions, even if they never actually hold the assets themselves.
- Then there are the other service providers, like DeFi platforms, that keep records of users’ transactions.
What do these platforms need to report? They have to collect details like who their users are, where they pay taxes, how many units they move, what those are worth, and their net balances at the end of each reporting period.
We’re talking about everything from Bitcoin and Ether to stablecoins like USDT, USDC, and pretty much any other crypto out there.
With all this data, tax authorities can finally see how crypto moves in and out of Colombia.
Platforms can’t just scribble this info down, either. They have to organise everything in structured, standardised formats, usually using electronic systems, so DIAN can process it all smoothly.
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