by Kirsty Pitkin | Sep 19, 2017 | BlogPost
Will AEoI be the new Equifax? We don’t know yet, who hacked Equifax. We just know that it happened some time ago and that hundreds of millions of people’s personal details were stolen and, even now, are likely to be being traded on the dark web. But these hacks have...
by Kirsty Pitkin | Oct 4, 2016 | BlogPost
Time is running out for the 2014 Form W-8BEN-E Back in April, the IRS issued a revised version of Form W-8BEN-E, which is used by non-US entities to report (among other things) their Identity and IRC Chapter 3 & 4 status to withholding agents. Regulations permit...
by Kirsty Pitkin | Sep 27, 2016 | BlogPost
Some Basic Responsibilities for a Responsible Officer Being a QI and Responsible Officer is not just about signing a bit of paper and filing this away….it is an on-going and ever developing regime. The ever-developing nature of the IRC Chapter 3 (QI regime),...
by Kirsty Pitkin | Sep 19, 2016 | Podcasts
The Impact of Failing to Report Correctly In this episode, your host Ross McGill brings you an overview of developments in the global regulatory landscape. We look at the changes in the penalties issued by the IRS for failure to report, how globally standardised...
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...