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Deadline approaching for filing FBAR reports in respect of non-U.S. equity awards and U.S. employee benefit plans

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 7 2011

This alert highlights special issues arising under the recently finalized Bank Secrecy Act regulations regarding reports of foreign financial accounts on Form TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (the “FBAR”

New FATCA reporting requirement impacts some US employees

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 24 2012

The IRS has adopted regulations under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act ("FATCA") requiring certain individual U.S. taxpayers to report ownership of "specified foreign financial assets" on IRS Form 8938 beginning for tax year 2011

United States continues to clamp down on undeclared foreign bank accounts

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 20 2012

The use of foreign bank accounts by US taxpayers to hide undeclared funds and assets has been a highly publicized topic since the US government's attack

2011 “FBAR reporting deadline imminent

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 19 2012

The June 30, 2012, deadline for filing Form TD F 90-22.1 Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (“FBAR”) for 2011 is imminent, and U.S. and foreign multinationals, and their officers and employees, should pay attention to the reasonably complex foreign bank and financial account reporting issues

Treasury releases model intergovernmental agreements, opens new chapter in FATCA implementation

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 9 2012

On July 26, 2012, the U.S. Treasury Department published two "Model I" intergovernmental agreements (IGAs) which open a new chapter in the U.S. approach to the implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), enacted by Congress in 2010

IRS announces timelines for due diligence and other requirements under FATCA

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 26 2012

The Internal Revenue Service released an Announcement on October 24, 2012 pushing back and clarifying certain timelines for the compliance by withholding agents and foreign financial institutions (FFIs) with due diligence and related requirements under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA

United States and United Kingdom sign first bilateral FATCA intergovernmental agreement

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • September 20 2012

The United States and the United Kingdom announced on September 14 that they have signed a bilateral agreement to improve international tax compliance and implement the information reporting and withholding tax provisions of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA

Multinationals and their officers and employees should pay attention to 2011 foreign bank account reporting on FBARs and tax returns

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 18 2012

The June 30, 2012, deadline for filing Form TD F 90-22.1 Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (“FBAR”) for 2011 is imminent, and U.S. and foreign multinationals, and their officers and employees, should pay attention to the reasonably complex foreign bank and financial account reporting issues

FATCA’s impact on loan market participants in Europe - where are we now?

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • November 20 2012

The US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (“FATCA”) continues to cause ripples across the loan market in Europe as participants realise that they are likely to be caught by its provisions

Treasury publishes final FATCA regulations

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 1 2013

On January 17, 2013, the United States Treasury published final regulations ("Final Regulations") interpreting the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act