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Beginning January 1, 2024, corporations, limited liability companies, and other similar entities created in or registered to do business in the United States must report information about their beneficial owners—the persons who ultimately own or control the company—to the Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). A reporting company
created or registered to do business BEFORE January 1, 2024, will have until January 1, 2025, to file its initial beneficial ownership information report. Or face up to $500 a day in penalties or possible 2 years of imprisonment.
Passed on January 1, 2021, it established a set of beneficial ownership reporting rules that require compliance with certain disclousure rules of whether "reporting companies" were established before or after the January 1, 2024, effective date.
To fight money laundering and terrorist financing.
Privately-held US companies are generally not required to identify owners. The US is one of the most secretive countries in the world with respect to finances. It has become the "Switzerland" of privacy, and US companies have been used for illegal and criminal activities.
The CTA is the most significant reformation of the Bank Secrecy Act and related anti-money laundering (AML) rules since the US PATRIOT Act and embodies years of efforts both domestically and abroad (The CTA was needed to meet Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards).
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury that collects and analyzes information about financial transactions in order to combat domestic and international money laundering, terrorist financing, and other financial crimes.
Penalties for violating the CTA are as follows:
For the reporting company, ifs the name, doing businnes as, physical address (not registered agent addresss),
the jurisdiction of formation/registration and the Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN)
(Foreign TIN for foreign entities without an Employer Identification Number (EIN))
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