The United States Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have announced that foreign jurisdictions that have reached agreement on the terms of intergovernmental agreements (IGAs) under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) can be treated as having such agreements in effect until the end of… – Continue reading
Deadlines are fast approaching for funds to comply with FATCA, the IRS announced an April 25 deadline for fund managers to register their offshore funds and offshore master funds with the IRS. Funds have until May 5 2014 to get their Global Intermediary Identification Numbers. Notably, the IRS has also… – Continue reading
April 2 — The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service announced that countries that have reached intergovernmental agreements (IGAs) in substance under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act before July 1 will be treated as having signed agreements through Dec. 31, 2014, winning praise from practitioners. The government also said… – Continue reading
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. The U.S. is waiting for Azerbaijan’s response on the agreement on the exchange of tax information on the FATCA rules. The U.S. Embassy reports that the US has engaged the Azerbaijani government on this issue. “Now we’re waiting for their response. The US government is negotiating similar arrangements… – Continue reading
The Treasury Department added 19 nations to its list of countries that have reached agreements with the U.S. on carrying out a far-reaching law aimed at preventing offshore tax dodging by American citizens. The Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service said the 19 nations – including Australia, Brazil, South Africa… – Continue reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday gave foreign financial institutions 10 extra days to register with the U.S. government, under a new law to combat offshore tax dodging by Americans that goes into effect on July 1. Under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), foreign banks,… – Continue reading
April 1, 2014 (KHARTOUM) – The Central Bank of Sudan (CBoS) has directed all commercial banks in the country to implement provisions of the of the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) by 1 July. FACTA is a US law designed to crack down on offshore tax evasion by… – Continue reading
The Bahamas is aiming to finalise its Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) inter-governmental agreement (IGA) with the US next week, a Cabinet minister said yesterday. #Speaking with Tribune Business at the third Caribbean Conference on international financial services, Ryan Pinder said the Ministry of Financial Services should be in… – Continue reading
The decision by Luxembourg and Austria to automatically exchange tax data with other European Union countries has isolated Switzerland in the global crusade against banking secrecy, a Tax Justice Network (TJN) expert tells swissinfo.ch. The two European Union states caved in to demands last month by signing up to the revised… – Continue reading
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The United States has de-facto suspended talks with Russia about exchanging information on taxes under 2010’s Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), in a sign of a deepening rift over Moscow’s actions in Ukraine, Vedomosti daily reported on Tuesday. The newspaper, citing two Russian federal officials and… – Continue reading
Expats should put their financial affairs in order while they have the chance as governments around the world prepare a global tax net aimed at wiping out avoidance. The operation is headed by the Organisation of Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) and closely follows the lines of the controversial US… – Continue reading
On Friday the Conservative government tabled legislation to implement key elements of this year’s Budget. But it contains more than tax credits. Buried within is a revised version of draft legislation implementing the Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with the U.S. on FATCA. A Department of Finance press release makes no mention of this… – Continue reading
The US and Luxembourg governments have signed an agreement to improve international tax compliance and to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). On 27 February 2014, the Luxembourg and US negotiating teams agreed on the substance of the Model 1 Agreement. ALFI – the Association of the Luxembourg… – Continue reading
Hong Kong may feel affect of any new law to uncover financial information China is expected to impose its own version of the new US tax law which requires financial institutions around the world to provide Washington with information on US taxpayers, analysts say. On March 25, the Secretary for… – Continue reading
Recent discussions about the movement of capital and offshore accounts have to be a major cause for concern. During a Central Bank seminar recently, Minister of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development, Donville Inniss, sounded the warning that compliance with the recently passed Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act… – Continue reading
This report provides an update on the progress of on-going efforts by the ECCU Working Group on FATCA (Working Group) towards stablishing a compliance framework for the region. The report concludes with a synopsis of the planned way forward for ensuring compliance by the implementation date.
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA and CALGARY, ALBERTA–(Marketwired – March 27, 2014) – Tax announcements don’t usually get the same attention as the Olympics, politics or other stories that commonly hit the front page of newspapers. But if you are a US person who has not complied with your annual US tax filing… – Continue reading
MOSCOW, March 26 (RIA Novosti) – Tensions between Moscow and Washington will not derail the two countries from signing an agreement on the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act or FATCA, Russia’s Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov said Wednesday. “It will be all right. We will undertake all necessary steps for… – Continue reading
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, March 26th 2014 (CUOPM) – The Member Governments of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) have commenced discussions with the United States of America (US) towards executing an Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) for the implementation of the provisions of the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). The… – Continue reading
Drowning in a sea of new financial regulations, and with IRS audits on the rise, some American citizens in Israel say they are weighing expatriation. That won’t work Tax attorney JoAnne Adlerstein has received some unusual phone calls of late. They’re from American clients living in Israel who are thinking… – Continue reading
The Luxembourg and US governments have today signed an agreement to improve international tax compliance and implement the so-called Model 1 Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) of the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). As a result of this agreement, the Luxembourg Tax Administration has set up two working groups including… – Continue reading
Aleaked document appears to reveal the Department of Finance and CRA may deviate from a tax deal struck with the U.S. Leaked by the Isaac Brock Society yesterday, the document purportedly presents the agency’s interpretation of draft legislation which, if passed, would give force to the Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) on FATCA signed… – Continue reading
The long arm of the American tax man has officially reached its way to Hong Kong. The question is, will it extend to the rest of China? Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China, signed an agreement with the U.S. on Tuesday to share tax information about Americans who… – Continue reading
FATCA was enacted in the US in 2010 in an effort to combat tax evasion by US persons holding investments in offshore accounts. Isreli currency. Photo: Reuters This article is relevant to US citizens and green card holders living in Israel. The Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act is due to be… – Continue reading
What is FATCA? FATCA or the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, is actually a section of the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act passed into United States law in March 2010, that comes into force on 1 July 2014. It is unique in its extra-territorial reach, being an attempt… – Continue reading
An inability to open a bank account is not news for everyone in Hong Kong. Just ask the long-suffering American residents. “Nobody wants to deal with the US citizen account signatory, whether it is a company account or an account for my own financial needs,” said Ross Feingold, a director… – Continue reading
A crucial component of the widely criticized new addition to the U.S. tax regime known as FATCA, passed by Democrats and signed by Obama in 2010 as part of a “jobs” bill, could result in massive capital flight from American banks and economic devastation if efforts to stop it are unsuccessful,… – Continue reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Multinational businesses that often fight with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service over their worldwide taxes may be dropped from an IRS program meant to smooth corporate audits, a senior IRS official said on Tuesday. Speaking at a conference, Michael Danilack, a deputy U.S. IRS commissioner, raised concerns… – Continue reading
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The British Virgin Islands Government has today announced the conclusion of negotiations with the United States on a Model 1 Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) under the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). In a statement the Ministry of Finance of the BVI Government said the final text of the agreement has been… – Continue reading
On February 5th, 2014, the Canada signed an intergovernmental agreement (“IGA”) with the U.S. regarding the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (“FATCA”). Under the terms of FATCA, Canadian financial institutions need to report directly to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) any information regarding bank accounts held by U.S…. – Continue reading
Romania is waiting for an answer from the United States on the beginning of negotiations of an intergovernmental agreement on the implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) on the exchange of information for fighting tax avoidance.The Romanian Government has approved a memorandum to this effect on January 22,… – Continue reading
Financial institutions in Bermuda, such as banks and trust companies, will soon be obliged to provide information to foreign tax authorities relating to the financial affairs of United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) resident clients. The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act 2009 (US FATCA) is a US law designed… – Continue reading
Tax administration is experiencing a global upheaval. The 2010 passage of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) – which includes costly demands on foreign financial institutions to report information on US clients to the IRS and large penalties for noncompliance – marked a new era of fiscal imperialism. Wealthy… – Continue reading
SEJONG, March 13 (Yonhap) — South Korea is expected to gain access to financial information on its nationals from the U.S. as the two countries are close to an agreement on sharing related data, finance ministry officials said Thursday, a move expected to help Seoul’s crackdown on offshore tax evasion…. – Continue reading
The Taxation (Annual Rates, Employee Allowances, and Remedial Matters) Bill contains proposed legislative amendments to give effect to the intergovernmental agreement (IGA) New Zealand is currently negotiating with the United States in respect of the United States’s Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). The Commentary to the Bill states that… – Continue reading
FATCA drives up demand for overseas pension schemes Dubai: The looming implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), a law designed as a tool to counteract tax evasion, is prompting a growing number US expatriates to look for tax efficient investment options. An estimated 7.2 million American expatriates… – Continue reading
Dubai: The US and UAE governments are in the process of signing the FATCA Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA). Under this agreement, banks and financial institutions in the UAE will be required to annually compile data for submission to the UAE regulatory authorities. The UAE Ministry of Finance would then send this… – Continue reading
Many UK advisers believe that the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) only applies to UK trusts if there are US beneficiaries, settlors or investments. This is not true. FATCA will apply to all financial institutions (banks, brokerage firms, trust companies and all financial accounts) in the UK and will… – Continue reading
The British Virgin Islands and the United States are close to signing an agreement on implementing the US’ Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act financial law (FATCA). Last week, the two sides concluded their talks on the agreement, initialing the final text of an agreement. In a statement, the British Virgin… – Continue reading
The US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) will be implemented on July 1 this year, and it would be better for Taiwan’s financial institutions not to speculate any more, a prominent accountant has said in an interview our sister paper Commercial Times. Chou Sih-ci said several financial operators still… – Continue reading
The OECD proposes to reform transfer pricing documentation for multinational enterprises and to impose onerous country-by-country (CbC) reporting obligations, including disclosure of taxes paid in each country in which a business operates, in a bid to enhance revenue authorities’ abilities to identify high risk transfer pricing situations and to make… – Continue reading
A prominent tax lawyer says that proposed federal legislation relieving Canadian financial institutions from onerous obligations under the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act “eviscerates” an intergovernmental agreement signed between Canada and the U.S. earlier this month. “The U.S. Treasury Department may view the legislation, if passed in its current form, as an… – Continue reading
Former American Peter Dunn wants Americans living in Canada to ask themselves an important question. “Am I really an American citizen?” Dunn, 50, has recently co-founded the Isaac Brock Society, a group raising awareness about the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). Dunn settled permanently in Canada in 1994. FATCA,… – Continue reading
March 7 — The Internal Revenue Service released instructions for Form W-8ECI for use by foreign taxpayers in telling the agency that their income is effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business, updated to reflect the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. Posted to the IRS’s website late March 6, the instructions followed… – Continue reading
(FINNBAY) – 10 March 2014. Finland along with other 49 countries around the world engaged with the US government to implement the information reporting and withholding tax provisions commonly known in the US as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). FATCA aims to establish a common intergovernmental approach to… – Continue reading
LONDON — If you don’t want something, giving it back is often an option. That’s precisely what some Americans, frustrated at what they see as onerous U.S. tax filing obligations for Americans living overseas, are doing with their citizenship. “I felt like I had gotten a divorce,” says Donna-Lane Nelson,… – Continue reading
Cayman is continuing preparations for the implementation of the US Foreign Accounts Compliance Act (FATCA). So far the island has signed two inter-governmental agreements (IGAs), and legislation is currently being drafted to meet the requirements of the new law. Chief Compliance Officer at DMS Offshore Investment Services Don Ebanks says… – Continue reading
As Canadian snowbirds and visitors in Costa Rica were following the performance of their compatriot athletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, their Finance and National Revenue Ministers announced that anintergovernmental agreement with the United States had been reached on the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) of 2010. What… – Continue reading
MANILA – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is mulling over sanctions on local banks that fail to comply with a US tax evasion law. “The BSP will study what sanctions, if any, we will impose if a local bank decides it wishes to handle US persons but exposes itself… – Continue reading
