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FATCA Reporting

The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) requires financial institutions to report annually to their local tax authorities information on their USA clients to be passed on to the US tax administration. 

Relevant Regulation: Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) 

Start date: 1 July 2014 

Regulatory Type: Regulatory reporting 

Types of firms affected: Firms with US clients such as banks, investment firms, E-Money, Fiduciary providers and others 

Supervisory authority: Tax authorities 

Frequency of reporting: Yearly 

FATCA Reporting Service

The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) requires financial institutions to report annually to their local tax authorities information on their USA clients to be passed on to the US tax administration.

Challenges & Risks

Firms face several challenges and risks that need to be addressed in order to proceed with the pertinent submissions before the deadline.

Challenges

  • Analysis & interpretation of the requirements, which consist of over 300 pages of guidelines to read
  • More than 65 fields per record to complete
  • Complicated multilevel XML files
  • Different jurisdictions with each posing a different set of challenges

Risks

  • Incorrect completion of FATCA reporting
  • Failure to meet the reporting deadline and overall requirements
  • Costly investment in resources to help you file the relevant submissions, which may place a burden on your budget
  • Disruption of your daily operations

Key Features

  • Cost-efficient integrated reporting solution provided under a single platform
  • Highly automated and scalable solution that can report as many accounts as you have
  • Flexible in the way it receives data, either via standard templates or raw data
  • Multiple reporting health checks for both content and schema and automatic filtering of erroneous entries
  • Automatic conversion of data to XML
  • Submissions to various tax authorities worldwide
  • On-going communication with regulators to ensure the system reports reflect regulatory updates and changes

Complyport receives reportable information, constructs the FATCA annual report, and, for most countries, submits it to the relevant competent authority as prescribed by the relevant provisions of FATCA.

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