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On March 21, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) submitted an interim final rule (IFR) to the Federal Register, regarding the beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements under the Corporate...more
On February 27, 2025, FinCEN issued a press release announcing future changes but giving no guidance about the scope of those changes: “No later than March 21, 2025, FinCEN intends to issue an interim final rule that...more
On February 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granted the federal government’s motion for a stay pending appeal and lifted the nationwide preliminary injunction in Smith, et al. v. U.S....more
On February 18, 2025, the U.S. Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas lifted the last remaining nationwide preliminary injunction of the CTA in the Smith case. This follows a decision on January 23, 2025, by...more
As a result of a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Smith v. U.S. Department of the Treasury on Tuesday, February 18, beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements under...more
On February 19, 2025, FinCEN released a statement that BOI reporting obligations under the CTA are back in effect, after a recent U.S. District Court decision in the ongoing case of Smith et al. v. U.S. Department of the...more
In the latest twist involving the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), the only nationwide injunction still in effect that barred enforcement of the CTA’s filing deadlines (Smith vs. U.S. Department of the Treasury) was stayed...more
As the saga of on-again-off-again requirements continues to unfold, FinCEN’s Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) have undergone significant changes due to...more
On February 17, a federal judge in Texas lifted a preliminary injunction issued in Smith v. United States Department of the Treasury, removing the last legal hurdle to the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act...more
Seventy-two hours after a motions panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit stayed the effect of a nationwide preliminary injunction imposed by a Texas federal district court blocking the reporting deadline for...more
On December 23, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an order temporarily staying the nationwide preliminary injunction previously granted in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland, et al. While...more
On December 23, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an Order which granted a stay of a lower court’s nationwide injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA or the Act). Texas Top Cop...more
On December 23, 2024, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit lifted the preliminary injunction recently imposed by a Texas district court that had blocked the reporting deadline for filing Beneficial...more
On December 23, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted a stay of the previously issued nationwide injunction in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland, et al., which had the effect of reinstating...more
On December 23, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the government’s emergency motion for a stay, effectively blocking a nationwide injunction issued by a district court against the Corporate Transparency Act...more
As we previously communicated in a client compliance alert last November, the federal Corporate Transparency Act (the CTA went into effect on January 1, 2024) requires certain organizations including corporations, limited...more
As we near the end of 2024, it’s crucial to be aware of an important deadline under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). Reporting companies formed before January 1, 2024, must file their initial Beneficial Ownership...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), the federal initiative to limit money laundering, tax evasion, and other illicit activities, took effect on Jan. 1, 2024. The CTA requires many businesses and their owners to register...more
In September 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued the final beneficial ownership information (“BOI”) reporting rules (the “BOI Reporting Rules”) of the Corporate...more
Over 30 million companies now have less than 70 days to file their initial reports under the new federal Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). Here is the bottom line and why it matters. ...more
Much has been written about the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”), which was enacted on January 1, 2021, and went into effect on January 1, 2024. Briefly, the CTA requires “reporting companies” to disclose beneficial...more
Background - In January 2021, the United States Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020. This law, while intended to prevent criminal actors from hiding and...more
The Federal Corporate Transparency Act (the CTA), 31 U.S.C. §5336, will soon require certain entities to disclose to the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) certain pieces of identifying information...more
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) has issued a flurry of publications relating to the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”). They pertain, in part, to a proposed extension of the filing deadline for certain...more
Federal law will soon require for the first time that certain companies disclose personally identifiable information about themselves and their beneficial owners and company applicants to U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes...more