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FinCEN Notice Launches Regulatory Process Requiring Covered Domestic and Foreign Companies to Report Beneficial Ownership to U.S. Government Monday, April 5, 2021
Today the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“FinCEN”) published in the
Federal Register a notice framing and seeking comment on key questions about how it will implement the new law requiring domestic and foreign legal entities to report their beneficial ownership to the U.S. government. FinCEN’s action today is important because it launches the administrative rulemaking process that will dictate many of the critical details of the upcoming regulatory regime whereby most companies and investment vehicles will be required to report beneficial ownership. Following on FinCEN’s rule requiring certain financial institutions to collect beneficial ownership information from legal entity customers, its new rulemaking beginning with the
Monday, April 5, 2021
Last week the Ninth Circuit issued a win for taxpayers in
US v. Boyd, limiting penalties for non-willful violations of the requirement to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR). The FBAR requirement applies to all United States persons with interest in or authority over a foreign financial account where the aggregate value of all such accounts is more than $10,000. Jane Boyd, a United States citizen, was required to file an FBAR due to her multiple bank accounts in the United Kingdom but failed to do so in 2010. After voluntarily disclosing the accounts through the IRS’s Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program, the IRS found that she had committed thirteen FBAR violations, one for each overseas account.
Monday, March 15, 2021
The
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 includes a modified version of the Butch Lewis Act, referred to as the Emergency Pension Plan Relief Act of 2021 (EPPRA), which restores to financial health more than 100 failing multiemployer pension plans. However, the measure falls well short of any meaningful long-term funding reform.
EPPRA is the result of a protracted attempt (including multiple proposals from both sides of the aisle) to address the multiemployer pension plan funding crisis. The Democrats have long-pursued direct government financial assistance to plans, while Republicans have focused on a new premium structure and copayments from stakeholders such as active employees and most retirees. Now that EPPRA is the law of the land, employers want and need to know how EPPRA will affect employer obligations for both contributions and withdrawal liability.
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