The U.S. has extended the time limit for compliance withFATCA, the reporting of its citizens’ financial accounts outside of the country,to the years 2014 and 2015. The Treasury Department of the United States, through the inland revenue service (IRS) has announced that it will take into account the “good faith”… – Continue reading
The head of the Lower House financial markets committee said that until Russia passes a law, any report to US tax authorities about a client accounts in Russian banks would be considered a violation of bank secrecy. MP Natalya Burykina (United Russia) added that bank employees who permit it could… – Continue reading
The Inland Revenue Department of the Republic of Cyprus is expected to sign the Model 1 InterGovernmental Agreement (“IGA”) with the US Treasury in accordance with the provisions of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). FATCA is a US tax legislation that was enacted in March 2010 in order… – Continue reading
With the recent passing of the 5 May 2014 registration deadline to be included in the first IRS GIIN list on 2 June 2014, and the 3 June 2014 registration deadline for the 1 July 2014 GIIN list imminent, this update outlines the practical implications for CLO issuers incorporated in… – Continue reading
On May 6, 2014, the Ministry of Finance of Singapore announced that Singapore had agreed in substance on a Model 1 FATCA IGA. Under the IGA, Singapore-based financial institutions will report information on financial accounts held by U.S. persons to the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS), which will in… – Continue reading
Many share my concern that, if information is held by a tax agency in virtually any country, there is no confidence it could not be transferred to a different agency of that country, says Martyn Gowar A PROBLEM SHARED The pragmatic bullying of the United States has reached a new… – Continue reading
Uncle Sam is poised to poke his pointy nose into the financial affairs of millions of Canadians who have no connection to his country, and — no matter how distasteful you find this — pushing back will only make it worse. This is the gloomy — but credible — conclusion… – Continue reading
The Council of Insurance Agents& Brokers issued the following news release:. The Washington- based Council of Insurance Agents& Brokers is developing www.w8bene.com, an online portal to house each foreign insurer’s W-8BEN-E forms so that brokers can access the ones they need when they need them. “Our industry is facing a tight… – Continue reading
On May 9, 2014, the U.S. Treasury announced that Hong Kong had agreed in substance on a Model 2 FATCA IGA. Under the IGA, Hong Kong financial institutions will report information on financial accounts held by U.S. persons directly to the Internal Revenue Service. Hong Kong is only the seventh country… – Continue reading
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou on Wednesday categorically denied a report that he holds a US green card and owes the US government Tw$500,000 ($16,556) in taxes, saying he would resign if the claim turned out to be true.The report, appearing in the latest issue of Taiwan’s Next Magazine, alleged… – Continue reading
Liechtenstein said Friday that it has signed a anti-tax fraud pact with Washington that requires banks in the principality to provide information about accounts held abroad by US taxpayers to US authorities. Under the agreement, Liechtenstein would implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), which came into effect on… – Continue reading
The Financial Services Authority (OJK) has proposed that the government demand reciprocal cooperation with the US regarding the latter’s request to apply its Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) in the country. FATCA is a law that the US has unilaterally imposed on the rest of the world to prevent… – Continue reading
More than three-quarters of US expatriates with supplementary overseas pensions contracts say they won’t renounce their citizenship to escape the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca). The result, from a survey by financial adviser deVere Group of 361 of its own clients, suggests the supplementary overseas pension contract may stem… – Continue reading
KARACHI: Pakistan’s large banks have completed the registration process with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) – the US government agency responsible for tax collection and law enforcement – to report the data (dollar-denominated transactions) of US persons to it, banking sources said on Wednesday. They have got the registration as… – Continue reading
Next Magazine yesterday released a report claiming that the president has to pay taxes to the U.S. under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), saying that Ma is poised to turn himself into an “international laughingstock” by becoming the first R.O.C. president subject to U.S. taxes. That the president… – Continue reading
On 28 April 2014, the Australian Government signed an agreement (the intergovernmental agreement) with their U.S. counterparts that will greatly assist Australian financial institutions that must comply with the requirements of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) legislation, enacted by the U.S. Government. The FATCA regime is, at its core,… – Continue reading
Hong Kong and the United States have concluded their discussions on the implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, with Hong Kong expected to sign a model 2 intergovernmental agreement later this year. Under the model 2 agreement, financial institutions in Hong Kong will need to register and conclude… – Continue reading
Ian Russell, president and CEO of the Investment Industry Association of Canada (IIAC), today urged members of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance to recommend approval of Bill C-31 at the earliest opportunity, which is necessary to implement the provisions of the United States Foreign Account Tax Compliance… – Continue reading
Despite a push to obtain agreements with foreign governments through April, the US Treasury’s own website notes the large number of outstanding Intergovernmental Agreements yet to be implemented fully around the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca). So-called IGAs are critical for the success of the US Foreign Account Tax… – Continue reading
The head of Canada’s investment industry association is urging the federal government not to defer legislation that will facilitate handing tax information of U.S. citizens living in Canada to authorities in the United States. Ian Russell, chief executive of the Investment Industry Association of Canada, made his pitch to the… – Continue reading
MOSCOW, May 14 (RAPSI) – The Russian government has approved a bill to allow Russian financial institutions to provide information about US taxpayers and to oblige foreign financial institutions to report Russian taxpayers to Russia’s Federal Tax Service, reads a statement on the government’s website. The bill has been submitted to… – Continue reading
Ever since President Obama signed the ill-conceived “Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act” (FATCA) into law in 2010, I’ve been warning about the death of the dollar. And I haven’t been alone. Other experts have cautioned about FATCA’s potential to literally shut down the global economy when it goes into full… – Continue reading
Hong Kong and the United States have substantially concluded discussions on an inter-governmental agreement (IGA) to simplify Hong Kong financial institutions’ compliance with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. The Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB) said that the IGA “will reduce Hong Kong financial institutions’ reporting burden and… – Continue reading
Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) has confirmed that it expects to conclude an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) with the United States regarding the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) by the end of June this year. FATCA, enacted by the US Congress in 2010 and due to take effect on July… – Continue reading
WASHINGTON (VR)— A US law designed to rein in offshore tax evasion by US citizens—the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA— is set to ensnare Russian banks in near chaos if Russia does not iron out how it will comply with the law in the next few weeks. The… – Continue reading
Kevin E. Thorn, Managing Partner of the Thorn Law Group discusses the recent negotiations between the U.S. Department of Justice and Swiss bank Credit Suisse and the effect that any potential settlement may have on the rest of the banking community and the U.S. Taxpayers who still may have undisclosed… – Continue reading
According to Treasury Department statistics published in the Federal Register, 1001 United States taxpayers gave up their passports or their green cards in the first quarter of 2014, an increase of 47.4 percent over the 679 individuals that did so in the first quarter of last year. This figure was… – Continue reading
The Minister with responsibility for Financial Services, Albert Isola, signed an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) between the US Government and the Government of Gibraltar at a signing ceremony in the US Embassy in London on Thursday. The agreement aims to improve international tax compliance through mutual assistance in tax matters based… – Continue reading
May 7th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Tax evaders and privacy advocates beware – Costa Rica and 46 other countries signed up yesterday to automatically share banking, financial, and tax information in what the OECD is touting as a major step towards cracking down on global tax evasion. The Declaration on Automatic Exchange… – Continue reading
ISLAMABAD: The government has geared up efforts to deal with the situation following the enforcement of Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act (FACTA) by the United States asking the Pakistanis having US nationality and multinational companies doing business in both the countries to submit taxes on their income to the US… – Continue reading
Agreement will help ease reporting burden of financial firms of American customers The government said yesterday it would sign a tax agreement with the United States this year that will help reduce the reporting burden of financial firms under the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca). The accord will… – Continue reading
ISLAMABAD: The government has geared up efforts to deal with the situation following the enforcement of Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act (FACTA) by the United States asking the Pakistanis having US nationality and multinational companies doing business in both the countries to submit taxes on their income to the US… – Continue reading
In an attempt to clean the image of Singapore as a tax haven and to wipe out money laundering activities, Singapore has concluded an Inter-governmental agreement (IGA), Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) with the United States. The stringent compliance required by the act will attract genuine funds to the… – Continue reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hong Kong has reached an information-sharing agreement with the United States under a new law meant to combat offshore tax dodging by Americans, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Friday. Set to take effect on July 1, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act of 2010 (FATCA) will… – Continue reading
Bloomberg BNA is reporting that Israel has signed a FATCA IGA. The agreement is a Model 1 agreement, meaning that Israeli financial institutions will will report information about U.S. customers’ accounts to the Israeli tax authorities, who will then send that information to the IRS. The news comes only a… – Continue reading
Monday, May 5 saw the Finance Ministry of Israel confirm that the US and the Jewish-majority state had concluded the text of an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) for the implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). Earlier, with Israel and the US reaching an agreement over sharing of tax… – Continue reading
Financial institutions making “good faith” efforts to comply with new US tax reporting rules will not face full enforcement action for any lapses until the end of 2015, the country’s tax authorities have announced.07 May 2014 Tax Disputes and Investigations Banking Banking & Restructuring Tax Corporate tax Private wealth tax… – Continue reading
The President of the Republic of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, approved a draft agreement between the Government of the Republic of Belarus and the Government of the United States of America on the improvement of compliance with international tax rules and the implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) as a basis… – Continue reading
Without a firm deadline in place from the IRS, U.S. citizens and resident aliens need to comply as soon as possible with the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program to avoid significant penalties and criminal prosecution. Modeled after the Offshore Disclosure Initiative, OVDP was passed in 2012 and increases the maximum Foreign… – Continue reading
The United States Internal Revenue Service is to regard calendar years 2014 and 2015 as an enforcement and administration transitional period with respect to the implementation and enforcement of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. FATCA, enacted by the US Congress in 2010, is intended to ensure that the US… – Continue reading
• Partnership creates end-to-end solution for enabling and ensuring FATCA compliance, including: data consolidation, indicia identification, additional KYC data/document capture, alerts/notifications and dashboards to monitor compliance, withholding calculations and remittance, and tax reporting. Banking analytics, risk and compliance pioneer, iCreate, today announced a strategic partnership with tax information reporting leader,… – Continue reading
Stockbroking firm Redmayne-Bentley has stopped offering its services to US clients as it moves to comply with incoming tax regime FATCA. With groups and wealth managers scrambling to ensure they are compliant ahead of the first significant deadline this week, Redmayne-Bentley said it has registered with the IRS, but has… – Continue reading
Singapore has concluded its discussion with the United States on an inter-governmental agreement that aim at preventing tax evasion by US citizens, permanent residents and entities, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the city-state’s Ministry of Finance and Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) jointly announced on Tuesday. The agreement… – Continue reading
The number of Americans renouncing United States citizenship or terminating long-term residency is on a record pace. Every 3 months, the government publishes the names of individuals who renounced U.S. citizenship or gave up a green card. This public outing puts Americans on notice who relinquished their rights. For January… – Continue reading
Because of a delay in the negotiation of an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) advised Pakistani financial institutions, as a precaution, to complete registration with the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by May 5, 2014, at… – Continue reading
To avoid costs of compliance, financial institutions in India may decide to filter the US client that they want to be on board. However, the actual impact be realised once RBI, SEBI and other regulators come out with guidelines to ensure compliance with FATCA in their respective domains The Foreign… – Continue reading
Ministry Asks Cabinet To Issue Decree KUWAIT CITY, May 4, (KUNA): The Ministry of Finance has announced that the State of Kuwait joined the list of countries which agreed initially in substance on the FATCA (Intergovernmental Agreement). The Ministry disclosed that they have agreed on substance regarding the FATCA… – Continue reading
OTTAWA — The NDP is calling on the federal government to delay passing legislation aimed at cooperating with the United States in taxing its citizens living in Canada, saying the law could “violate the privacy and constitutional rights” of those residents and needs to be studied more closely. The U.S…. – Continue reading
United States Intergovernmental Agreement The British Virgin Islands (“BVI”) Government on 6 March 2014 initialled a “Model 1 intergovernmental agreement” (the “BVI-US IGA”) with the government of the United States of America with respect to the “Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act” provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (“FATCA”), designed to… – Continue reading
New Democrats are calling on the Conservatives to acknowledge the concerns with the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and agree to remove it from Budget Bill C-31. “Despite broad opposition, the Conservatives are charging ahead with the implementation of this agreement,” said NDP National Revenue Critic Murray Rankin (Victoria). “Serious… – Continue reading
