Have you collected a U.S. tax identification number (TIN) from each of your U.S. account holders? If you were not able to, the U.S....

The Bahamas FATCA/CRS portal will open for registration and reporting on Monday, July 19, 2021 at 9 AM EDT. The portal will close for...

For those financial institutions (FIs) who submit their FATCA reporting directly to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the March...

The Guernsey Revenue Service announced Financial Institutions (FIs) must submit Common Reporting Standard (CRS) and FATCA Compliance...

The Department for International Tax Cooperation (DITC) announced the deadline for the first ever CRS Compliance Form is now September...

For those not familiar with the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act, hearing the term Politically Exposed Person for the first time might conjure up...

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) International Tax Authority (ITA) announced scheduled interruptions to its BVI Financial Account...

The Cayman Islands Department for International Tax Cooperation (DITC) issued an Updates Bulletin dated December 10, 2020 with a number...

The IRS issued a reminder today re: FATCA RO certifications. "For the certification period ending December 31, 2019 (generally entities...

In the midst of the U.S. Presidential campaign, came positive economic and diplomatic news as members of the Trump administration...

The Cayman Islands Department for International Tax Cooperation’s (DITC) new portal is now open. The DITC has also issued its 43-page...

The Cayman Islands Department for International Tax Cooperation (DITC) announced its new portal will open in early November 2020 and the...

Recently the Cayman Islands launched its new website with the promise that the new portal would be launched in Q3 2020. However, the...

The Bahamas Competent Authority has announced an additional extension to FATCA/CRS reporting. Instead of closing the portal on September...

The Bahamas FATCA/CRS portal will be offline for maintenance on Saturday September 19, 2020 from 4 AM to 1 PM EDT. The portal is...

We have learned many great techniques for communicating during COVID which may have been previously handled through international...

The new BVI portal is back on line and open for FATCA and CRS reporting. The deadline for CRS (where extensions were previously granted...

The deregistration of an entity from the IRS FATCA portal may be necessary as a result of the sale, liquidation or other termination of...

The Caymans has launched its new fresh looking website which covers: CRS, FATCA, Economic Substance, Exchange of Information, and CBCR....