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Welcome to the award-winning FCPA Compliance Report, the longest running podcast in compliance. In this episode, Tom welcomes back Corporate Transparency Act expert and maven Jonathan Wilson for a look at how the Trump...more
On March 21, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau of the Treasury Department, issued a new interim final rule on reporting under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). The new rule drastically...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (together with its implementing regulations, the CTA) is a federal law that went into effect on January 1, 2024. The CTA is aimed at combating financial crimes such as money laundering,...more
Ling Chi was a slow and torturous method of execution practiced in Imperial China. Better known in English as "death by a thousand cuts", ling chi took a terribly long time to kill the condemned prisoner....more
On March 2, the Treasury announced it will suspend enforcement of fines or penalties indefinitely for beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting. This suspension of enforcement will be for U.S. domestic reporting...more
Days after the United States Treasury Department and its Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced it was suspending enforcement the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), (you can read about that in our last client...more
On March 2, 2025, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that it would not enforce penalties or fines associated with beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)...more
As of February 18, 2025, the US Department of the Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s (FinCEN) Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) reporting requirements have been restored—at least temporarily. The new filing...more
As of the posting of this article, reporting companies nationwide once again need to comply with the Corporate Transparency Act’s (CTA) revised beneficial owner information (BOI) reporting deadlines. FinCEN has set the...more
Beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) are once again back in effect. In the latest in a line of dizzying decisions surrounding the CTA, in Smith v. U.S....more
CTA filings are obligatory again. Most reporting companies have until March 21, 2025 to complete their filings. If you adopted a wait-and-see posture in regard to making your CTA BOIR filings, the wait is unfortunately over....more
On February 17, 2025, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas stayed its previous order suspending enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)’s Reporting Rule in Smith v. US Dept. of the Treasury,...more
In the latest in a series of back-and-forth developments, the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) is once again enforceable following a federal district court decision, with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) is back in effect − at least for now − and companies covered by the CTA are once again required to file beneficial ownership information (BOI) reports with FinCEN. On February 17, 2025, in...more
The beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) are back in effect. The CTA generally requires “reporting companies” (any domestic or foreign entity registered...more
A Texas federal judge has ordered a stay of a nationwide injunction that placed the Corporate Transparency Act’s (“CTA”) filing requirements on hold. As a result, the CTA’s reporting requirements are back in effect. FinCEN...more
Companies are once again required to comply with the CTA and its reporting obligations. As discussed in our previous update, last month the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) stayed (i.e., suspended the effect of)...more
As discussed last month, in early January, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide injunction temporarily blocking enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) (see Smith et al....more
(2/6/25) Update as of February 5, 2025: The government appealed the nationwide injunction blocking CTA enforcement in Smith, et al. v. U.S. Department of the Treasury, et al., 6:24-cv-00336 (E.D. Tex.). FinCEN updated its...more
On February 5, 2025, the United States filed a motion in the case of Samantha Smith, et al., v. United States Department of Treasury, et al., to stay the order of the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas,...more
Considering conflicting rulings, businesses remain understandably confused about whether to file their mandated Beneficial Ownership Reports with FinCen. As of this writing, the answer remains that businesses may file but are...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), enacted in 2021, mandates that companies disclose their true ownership to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to combat illicit financial activities. However, its...more
On January 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) lifted the nationwide injunction imposed by the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in the case of Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. Garland (Top Cop...more
The Supreme Court has weighed in on the ongoing battle concerning the Corporate Transparency Act (the CTA). As we previously wrote, on December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a...more
The saga of the CTA continues. Adopted in January 2021, the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) is intended to assist in identifying beneficial ownership and control of entities operating in the United States in order to...more