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US Government to Establish New Corporate Transparency Act Regulations to Verify UBOs

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The US government is ready to change the process of reporting beneficial ownership. The final rules of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) will be implemented on January 1st 2024, allowing the US to create an advanced robust database to secure information about all beneficial owners of the companies.   

The US government is revising the reporting of beneficial ownership information under the CTA, allowing official authorities to create a secure database for storing all data about the UBOs. To prevent money laundering and terrorist financing of businesses, the latest regulation will provide regulators with all the vital information about a company’s ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs) and will affect a large number of companies, including financial institutions and individual businesses. 

The CTA and AML compliance measures are designed to prevent money laundering, tax fraud, and other corrupt practices that are used in the corporate sectors to disguise the identity of the real owners. Once the regulations are in place, FinCEN can trace the legal owners and entities of the business using an information-collecting and management system. Every “reporting company” will be obligated to provide an informational report to FinCEN with their collected data. 

According to the regulations, the disclosure information should include data about each beneficial owner of a reporting company, including their full legal name, date of birth, current residential address, along with an identification number, such as a non-expired ID, driver’s licence number, or passport number, and a photo of the relevant identifying document. Consequences for noncompliance include both civil and criminal charges. A civil fine of up to $500 may be imposed on a person or organisation for each day till the necessary data is not provided. Criminal offences are punishable by fines or imprisonment of up to two years and $10,000.

It is prominent for financial institutes and other firms to carefully examine their organisational structures in order to identify beneficial owners, whether they are shareholders, directors and officers (D&Os), members, or managers. Overall, the implementation of CTA regulations will impact the vast area of corporate sectors. However, companies should prepare themselves to comply with rigid regulations and secure their businesses to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing. By complying with other regulatory requirements, companies will be able to comply with CTA measures when they take effect without interfering with processes or causing delays.    

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