India to issue tax notices to 500,000 people for trading in bitcoins

500,000 individuals in India have landed in trouble with the Income Tax department for using bitcoins to trade on exchanges.

This comes at a time when the global value of bitcoins has surged massively. The Indian government doesn't recognise cryptocurrencies as legal.

Our India correspondent Neha Poonia reports.

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