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 | Feb 8, 2018 | BlogPost
I speak English, French and FATCA Acronyms have two main uses. The first is to facilitate efficient communication between professionals within a given discipline where the long form of technical terms would be unwieldy. This is particularly prevalent in the medical,...
by Kirsty Pitkin | Nov 8, 2017 | BlogPost
Are FATCA’s Dissenters Tilting at Windmills? In the Cervantes novel of the same name, Don Quixote hopes to bring justice to the world by reviving the old ways of chivalry*. Believing a series of windmills on the horizon to be marauding Giants, Quixote launches...
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 | Nov 8, 2017 | BlogPost
FATCA Misconceptions For some within the industry, the mere mention of ‘FATCA’ is enough to spark compliance-nightmare flashbacks. Try to picture the halcyon days before that little five letter acronym entered our world. There was no CRS, no BEPS, no Section 871(m),...