Digital Identity

From January 2018 onwards, the Swiss city of Chiasso will allow its citizens to pay taxes in bitcoin becoming a Bitcoin-friendly environment.

This news came earlier today thanks to an executive note published by the municipality of Chiasso, in the southern region of Canton Ticino.

Chiasso will be accepting bitcoin as a mean to pay city taxes for a value of up to 250 CHF, surpassing its rival Zug, also known as the CryptoValley, that only accepts 200 CHF.

As you can read in the official note, the Chiasso Mayor met a group of local entrepreneurs who have chosen the border town as a base for their businesses and for the development of its technology.

Well, we can now reveal that the “entrepreneurs” quoted is the Digital Identity team, in the person of Natale Ferrara, Andrea Benetton, Paolo Barrai.

CryptoPolis also features the participation of a few important people and companies in the Blockchain industry including Giacomo Zucco, Eidoo, CryptoLab, and BHB.

“Today, there is an internationally acknowledged community in Chiasso, which is the epicenter of a movement of technological and economic growth for the Canton and for the whole Switzerland too. In the last months, 8 startups have chosen Chiasso to carry out their business and more negotiations are underway with other companies coming from Europe,” explained the Mayor.

The executive also states that it will consider the chance of participating as a founding partner in the formation of a new non-profit foundation based in Chiasso, which will involve some of the top exponents of this disruptive technology.

This non-profit foundation will be a branch of the Italian-based BHB that is among our main partners.

The municipality will also regularly host meetups dedicated to this topic, which will be attended by international representatives starting from October 2017.

Naturally, Digital Identity is really proud of this new achievement.

Attached you can read the official statement published by Comune di Chiasso.