The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) has been in effect since Jan. 1, 2024, requiring non-exempt U.S. entities and non-exempt foreign entities that are registered to do business in the United States (collectively, Reporting Companies) to submit beneficial ownership information (BOI) reports to a confidential database maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes
Starting Jan. 1, 2024, the Corporate Transparency Act and its implementing regulations mandate that certain U.S. legal entities and foreign entities registered to do business in the United States (collectively, Reporting Companies) report certain BOI to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). According to FinCEN, this reporting requirement is intended
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s Spring 2023 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (the Agenda) forecast a busy fall for the regulator, with many of the 55 final and proposed rules set for adoption or promulgation by October 2023. With October 2023 well underway, business leaders—who have been critical of both the amount
The Corporate Transparency Act of 2019 (CTA), enacted as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, requires, for the first time, that certain U.S. legal entities and foreign entities registered to do business in the United States disclose information regarding their beneficial owners and persons who register or form them to the U.S. Department
On Oct. 23, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB) (FinCEN and the FRB collectively, the Agencies), issued a joint notice of proposed rulemaking (Proposed Rule) that would amend the Recordkeeping Rule and Travel Rule regulations issued under the