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   "standing_position": "IOMFSA's 2020 perimeter guidance takes a technology-neutral, substance-over-form approach: tokens that are pure stores of value or provide access to services (e.g., bitcoin, ether) sit outside the regulatory perimeter (though their businesses still need Designated Business AML registration); tokens offering profit, income or capital growth are treated as security-like investments; tokens with e-money characteristics are regulated as e-money. No dedicated stablecoin classification has been published.",
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   "standing_position": "No Isle of Man statute separately licenses staking, DeFi lending, mining, node operation, validator activity, or tokenization. The broad statutory scope of the Designated Businesses regime (covering issuing, transmitting, custody, administering, managing, lending, buying, selling, and exchanging convertible virtual currencies) may capture some on-chain business models such as centralized lending, but bespoke treatment of decentralized/on-chain activities has not been identified.",
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   "standing_position": "The Isle of Man has not enacted a dedicated stablecoin statute covering issuance authorisation, reserve requirements, redemption rights, disclosure, or systemic designation. A fiat-referenced stablecoin issuer would need to be assessed case-by-case against existing e-money or securities-style perimeter tests under FSA guidance and the Financial Services Act 2008.",
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   "standing_position": "Isle of Man authorities have repeatedly flagged that unlicensed digital-currency activity outside the FSA perimeter carries no consumer-protection backstop, while security-like tokens attract standard investment-business consumer protections equivalent to traditional share-certificate investments.",
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   "name": "Tax Treatment",
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   "standing_position": "The Isle of Man applies its general favourable tax regime to crypto activity rather than a crypto-specific tax code: no capital gains tax, no corporate tax for most businesses, and individual income tax capped at 20%. These reflect general Manx tax policy rather than bespoke crypto legislation.",
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   "standing_position": "No Isle of Man-specific outbound restriction on cryptoasset transfers has been identified; cross-border movement of virtual currency is governed by the general Designated Business AML/CFT framework (owned by FIM) rather than a bespoke capital-control or crypto travel-rule statute. FATF/MONEYVAL follow-up reporting notes residual gaps in targeted financial sanctions implementation relevant to cross-border risk.",
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   "standing_position": "Crypto AML/CFT obligations for the Isle of Man are owned by the Financial Integrity Module (FIM) aml_ctf baseline, to which this crypto consumer subscribes. No aml_cft claims are produced in this crypto baseline to avoid duplication; disambiguation context only is retained (IOMFSA is the designated AML/CFT supervisor for virtual currency Designated Businesses since October 2015, per the Designated Businesses (Registration and Oversight) Act 2015).",
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