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FinCEN’s Southwest Border Geographic Targeting Order Faces Challenges in Texas and Southern California

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In March, we wrote about the Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issuing a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) aimed to combat Mexican-based drug cartels. The GTO signals Treasury’s efforts to...more

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FinCEN Issues Interim Final Rule Removing U.S. Companies and Persons from CTA Reporting Requirements

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Update: On March 21, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an interim final rule that removes the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to report Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) under...more

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Nationwide Injunction Halts Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act - UPDATED February 21,2025

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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

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Corporate Transparency Act: FinCEN Reinstates Reporting Requirements with March 21 Deadline

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Earlier this week, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a new notice confirming that the Corporate Transparency Act’s (CTA) beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements are back in effect....more

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US District Court Resumes CTA BOI Reporting Requirements as FinCEN Extends Deadline

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A nationwide preliminary injunction put in place on January 7, 2025 by a district court in Texas has been stayed pending appeal, reinstating the reporting requirements of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). However, the...more

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Corporate Transparency Act Reporting Obligations Back In Effect With Extension

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Reporting obligations related to the Corporate Transparency Act (“the CTA”) are set to return. As we previously reported, on December 3, 2024, a federal judge in Texas (Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. Bessent) issued a...more

Saul Ewing LLP

FinCEN Reinstates Beneficial Ownership Reporting Deadline Following Court Ruling

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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

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Court Lifts Injunction on Corporate Transparency Act – Most Companies Must File by March 21, 2025

After months of litigation, the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) is once again effective, and most companies subject to the CTA are required to file Beneficial Ownership Information (“BOI”) reports with the U.S. Treasury’s...more

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Whiplash Redux - The Corporate Transparency Act is Back

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The preliminary injunction in Smith, et al. v. U.S. Department of the Treasury that was still pausing any required filings by reporting companies under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) was lifted on February 17, 2025 by...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Corporate Transparency Act: Government Appeals Smith Case, Seeks Reporting Rule Reinstatement

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Here are the latest developments in the ongoing Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) saga...more

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CTA Reporting Obligations Still on Hold Despite Supreme Court Ruling

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The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) continues to take reporting companies on a roller coaster ride. Now, there are not just one, but two Eastern District of Texas federal cases challenging the requirement for certain...more

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Corporate Transparency Act Compliance Still on Hold, For Now

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On January 23, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a nationwide preliminary injunction on the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (the CTA), a law requiring millions of business entities to report information about their...more

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It Lives: Trump Administration Defends Corporate Transparency Act; May Modify its Application

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On February 5, 2025, the Trump administration added a new chapter to the saga that has been implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), filing a notice of appeal and motion for stay against an Eastern District of...more

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Corporate Transparency Act Updates

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(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

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FinCEN Confirms Suspension of Corporate Transparency Act

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FinCEN has confirmed that, since December 7, 2024, reporting companies have not been, and will continue to not be, required to file beneficial ownership reports for as long as an injunction of the CTA remains in effect....more

Saul Ewing LLP

Corporate Transparency Act Reporting Requirements Still on Hold

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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

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CTA Enforcement Remains Paused Following Supreme Court Ruling Granting Stay of Injunction

On January 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States granted the federal government’s motion to stay the nationwide injunction preventing enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) entered by the United...more

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Corporate Transparency Act Update

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On January 23, 2025, the United States Supreme Court granted the government’s application for stay of a recent district court’s preliminary injunction of the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)....more

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Beneficial Ownership Reporting: Litigation, Pending Legislation and Possible Future Executive Action Have Left the Fate of the...

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

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Another Twist in the Corporate Transparency Act Saga: FinCEN Announces That Ownership Information Reporting Is Not Currently...

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced in an alert posted on its website on January 24, 2025, that reporting companies under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) are not...more

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Status of CTA Reporting Rule as of January 24, 2025

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FinCEN announced on January 24: In light of a recent federal court order, reporting companies are not currently required to file beneficial ownership information with FinCEN and are not subject to liability if they fail to...more

McGlinchey Stafford

Game On – Again, Not Exactly: Supreme Court Stays CTA Universal Injunction

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The rollercoaster has more hills and turns. On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed that the Government is entitled to a stay of the universal injunction of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). In light of this...more

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SCOTUS Allows Enforcement of Corporate Transparency Act; FinCEN Says Reporting is Voluntary for Now

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As the calendar turns to 2025, there is a new development in the off-again, on-again Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”). This time, the highest court has weighed in....more

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Corporate Transparency Act Enforcement Remains Paused

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On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay of the nationwide preliminary injunction issued by a federal district court in Texas in December 2024 in the Texas Top Cop Shop litigation....more

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CTA Reporting Remains Voluntary Despite Recent Supreme Court Decision

On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed a nationwide preliminary injunction issued in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. et al. v. Garland et al., creating further legal uncertainty surrounding the Corporate Transparency Act...more

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