by Kirsty Pitkin | Jul 9, 2018 | BlogPost
FATCA Failures: Holistic compliance or just full of holes? In the last eighteen months we’ve conducted compliance reviews in five countries on twelve Tier 2 and Tier 3 financial institutions. Those compliance reviews have been to the US tax regulations known as QI and...
by Kirsty Pitkin | May 31, 2018 | BlogPost
Your ‘Bible’ to Compliance Compliance is a never ending road and your responsible officer and compliance department have a significant role to play to ensure you are meeting your regulatory obligations. In a previous post we...
by Kirsty Pitkin | Nov 8, 2017 | BlogPost
The Challenges of GATCA The global anti-tax evasion frameworks that comprise GATCA have as many commonalities as they have differences. CRS/AEoI, in particular, has significant common ground with FATCA. FATCA in turn, intersects the US Non-Resident Alien taxation...
by Kirsty Pitkin | Sep 13, 2016 | BlogPost
Tax Reporting Does ACTUALLY Matter Regulation… regulation… sorry, what’s that? More regulation? You think that tax evaders get away with it? Or that your reports as a Foreign Financial Institution (FFI) are not monitored? Well, think again! FATCA and...
by Kirsty Pitkin | Aug 11, 2016 | BlogPost
The ‘PATH’ to Compliance The US seems to be one of the few countries whose lawmakers have a penchant for using obscure acronyms to name their regulations or laws. The rather amusingly named ‘ or ‘PATH’, is one such. Readers of my blogs will know that...
