What is FATCA?
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act became
U.S. law in March 2010 but will take effect around the world on July
1, 2014. The goal of the law is to find offshore accounts held by
U.S. taxpayers seeking to avoid paying taxes on them.
Under the law, banks from around the world will
be asked to sift through their accounts to look for clients with U.S.
connections, then share that information with the U.S. Internal
Revenue Service.
The U.S. is looking for tax cheats, but critics
say innocent people are getting caught up in the hunt.
Quick Facts
- Under the agreement, financial institutions in Canada will not report any information directly to the IRS. Rather, relevant information on accounts held by U.S. residents and U.S. citizens (including U.S. citizens who are residents or citizens of Canada) will be reported to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). The CRA will then exchange the information with the IRS through the existing provisions and safeguards of the Canada-U.S. Tax Convention. This is consistent with Canada’s privacy laws.
- The IRS will provide the CRA with enhanced and increased information on certain accounts of Canadian residents held at U.S. financial institutions.
- Significant exemptions and relief have been obtained. For instance, certain accounts are exempt from FATCA and will not be reportable. These include Registered Retirement Savings Plans, Registered Retirement Income Funds, Registered Disability Savings Plans, Tax-Free Savings Accounts, and others. In addition, smaller deposit-taking institutions, such as credit unions, with assets of less than $175 million will be exempt.
- The 30 percent FATCA withholding tax will not apply to clients of Canadian financial institutions, and can apply to a Canadian financial institution only if the financial institution is in significant and long-term non-compliance with its obligations under the agreement.
- The agreement is consistent with Canada’s support for recent G-8 and G-20 commitments intended to fight tax evasion globally and to improve tax fairness. In September 2013, G-20 Leaders committed to automatic exchange of tax information as the new global standard and endorsed a proposal by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to develop a global model for the automatic exchange of tax information. They also signaled an intention to begin exchanging information automatically on tax matters among G-20 members by the end of 2015.
- Draft legislation to implement the agreement will be released for comment shortly on the Department of Finance website.
July
1st 2014 FACTA Bill .Is America About To Stumble Into A Credit
Default?
Markets everywhere breathed a sigh of relief in
February when the GOP-controlled House of Representatives allowed the
debt ceiling to be suspended without another tussle with the White
House over spending. Whatever the political or budgetary
merits, the world of finance and business cheered that the “full
faith and credit” of the United States government would not be
compromised by failure to meet all of its obligations on time.
The relief may have been premature.
In less than three months the Department of the
Treasury will start trimming payments on portions of the $17.3
trillion-plus national debt, with unpredictable – and unstudied –
consequences. Acting in violation of legal commitments to
purchasers, the Department will chop 30% from interest payments due
some foreign holders of hundreds of billions, perhaps trillions, of
dollars’ worth of Treasury securities. Possible results of
this consciously inflicted partial federal default could include mass
dumping of bonds by jittery holders, a rise in the rate the
government pays for debt service, and undermining the dollar’s
status as the world’s reserve currency. The impact on the
U.S. and global economy is, literally, incalculable.
Why
would Treasury Secretary Jack Lew do this? Because he’s
required to under a
law of which few Americans have ever heard.
Enacted
in 2010 by an all-Democratic Congress with almost no legislative
review, the “Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act” (FATCA)
was slipped into an unrelated jobs bill as a budgetary pay-for
provision. Set
to go into effect on July 1, 2014,
FATCA supposedly is aimed at American tax cheats with money stashed
abroad. But instead of singling out suspected tax evaders,
FATCA creates an NSA-style
information dragnetrequiring
all non-U.S. financial institutions (banks, credit unions, insurance
companies, investment and pension funds, etc.) in every country in
the world to report data on all specified U.S. accounts to the IRS.
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Obama’s
new July 1st 2014 law will shock most Americans
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Obama’s new July 1st 2014 law will shock most Americans
Dear Reader,
We’ve been critical of several Obama
Administration policies over the past few years…
But a new law set to go into effect on July
1st, 2014 (less than six months from now), might be the
Administration’s worst decision yet.
On
this date, Title V of House of Representative Bill #2847, known as
“FATCA,” goes into
effect.http://pro.stansberryresearch.com/1310PSIEANEW/LPSIQ295/
We believe this could precipitate a huge
collapse in the U.S. dollar… and a rapid decrease in our standard
of living.
Of course, we’re not the only ones who
believe this new U.S. law is going to be a disaster for our country
and American citizens.
Write
Down This Date:
July 1st, 2014
July 1st, 2014
On this date, U.S. House of Representatives
Bill “H.R. 2847” goes into effect. It will usher in the true
collapse of the U.S. dollar, and will make millions of Americans
poorer, overnight. You now have just several months to prepare…
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