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The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) is a 2010 U.S. federal law requiring all non-U.S. foreign financial institutions (FFIs) to search their records for customers with indicia of a connection to the U.S., including indications in records of birth or prior residency in the U.S., or the like, and to report such assets and identities of such persons to the United States Department of ...
Like FATCA, the Standard requires all financial institutions operating in a country to apply specified due diligence procedures to customers to determine the customers' country or countries of tax residence. Financial institutions typically include all banks and asset managers, as well as certain insurance companies.
The FATCA agreement is an international agreement signed between Canada and the United States that allows the implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (an Act of the U.S. Congress) in Canada. It is one of 30 intergovernmental agreements the US has concluded with other countries to implement the FATCA. [2]
Countries do not necessarily use the same system of taxation for individuals and corporations. For example, France uses a residence-based system for individuals but a territorial system for corporations, [172] while Singapore does the opposite, [173] and Brunei and Monaco taxes corporate but not personal income. [174] [175]
In the most serious cases, countries are called upon to apply counter-measures to protect the international financial system from the ongoing money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing risks emanating from the country". [5] As of November 2022, only three countries were on the FATF blacklist: North Korea, Iran, and ...
In this list of financial regulatory and supervisory authorities, central banks are only listed where they act as direct supervisors of individual financial firms, and competition authorities and takeover panels are not listed unless they are set up exclusively for financial services.
The European Union includes the US Territories of American Samoa, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands in its list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes. [ 11 ] On January 20, 2025 , President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Global minimum corporate tax rate.
2000: The FSF–IMF define an offshore financial centre (OFC) with a list of 42–46 OFCs using a qualitative list of criteria; [57] in 2007, the IMF produced a revised quantitative-based list of 22 OFCs, [47] and in 2018, another revised quantitative-based list of 8 major OFCs, who are responsible for 85% of OFC financial flows. [37]