Paraguay’s national tax authority has ordered crypto platforms and individual holders to file detailed annual returns on all digital asset activity, a move that reshapes the compliance calculus for a country that attracted a record 47,687 residency applications in 2025, partly on the strength of its hands-off approach to crypto.

Resolución General N.° 47/2026, signed on March 10 by Dirección Nacional de Ingresos Tributarios (DNIT) Director Óscar Alcides Orué Ortíz, establishes what the authority calls “the obligation to supply information on all transactions carried out with crypto-assets.”

Reporting will flow through the DNIT’s existing Marangatu tax management system, with the first filings due in early 2027 for…