Last week, the Acting Director of IRS of Field Operations for the LB&I Foreign Payments Practice (“FPP”) announced that the IRS will launch a compliance campaign this summer focused on foreign financial institutions (“FFIs”) that are not satisfying their reporting obligations under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (“FATCA”). Speaking at a tax controversy forum at NYU, Kimberly Schoenbacher indicated that the IRS will be sending notices to FFIs that failed to file Forms 8966 (FATCA Report) reporting assets held in accounts by U.S. persons.
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IRS Extends Deadline for FFI Agreement Renewal
By S. Michael Chittenden on
Following the July 31, 2017, deadline for renewing an FFI agreement, the IRS announced in a new FAQ that a participating FFI (including a reporting model 2 FFI) that renews its FFI agreement by October 24, 2017, will continue to be treated as a participating FFI. Rev. Proc. 2017-16,…
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