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A new nationwide anti-money laundering rule introduces mandatory reporting to the U.S. Department of Treasury’s FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) for specific all-cash residential real estate transactions...more
U.S. companies can exhale. All entities created in the U.S. – including those previously known as “domestic reporting companies” and their beneficial owners – will be exempt from Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) reporting...more
UPDATE as of 3/4/25: As of February 18, 2025, all nationwide injunctions barring the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) had been lifted. For approximately ten days, the CTA mandatory beneficial...more
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (FinCEN) has changed the rules once again on the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). Despite recently announcing that the new filing deadline for...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) introduced substantial new reporting obligations for a wide array of corporate entities. Generally, any domestic entity formed by filing documents with a secretary of state or similar...more
Newly Formed Entities Have 30 Days to File - On February 17, 2025, the Eastern District of Texas in Smith v. United States Department of the Treasury lifted the last remaining nationwide preliminary injunction on...more
The final judicial barrier to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act’s beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements has been lifted. The Corporate...more
The Corporate Transparency Act’s (CTA) reporting requirements are officially back in force, requiring non-exempt entities to disclose beneficial ownership information (BOI). This week, a Texas federal court lifted the last...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), enacted in 2021, mandates that companies disclose their true ownership to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to combat illicit financial activities. However, its...more
Starting last January, the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has opened a portal for businesses to file their beneficial ownership information reports (BOI). The BOI is the U.S. Treasury’s...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on December 23, 2024, issued an order lifting a prior order issued by a federal district court in the Eastern District of Texas granting a nationwide preliminary...more
On December 23, 2024, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an order in the case of Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland, et al. staying the nationwide preliminary injunction...more
Reporting companies are once again required to comply with the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements, although the deadline has been shifted slightly to allow those...more
On Monday, December 23, 2024, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (the “Fifth Circuit”) lifted a Texas district court’s order enjoining the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s (“FinCEN’s) enforcement of the Corporate...more
An appellate panel has stayed the nationwide injunction issued by a federal judge in Texas that halted enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). Hours later, the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)...more
On December 23, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an order granting the Department of Justice’s emergency motion for a stay pending appeal, lifting the nationwide injunction blocking the...more
On December 23, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the stay on the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), reinstating its enforcement nationwide. The CTA requires certain non-exempt entities to report the identities of...more
This Alert covers updates from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) regarding Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements resuming. In light of the federal Court...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has granted the government’s motion to stay the Eastern District of Texas’ December 3 nationwide preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA” or the “Act”) became effective as of January 1, 2024. It is the latest effort by the federal government to combat money laundering, tax fraud, and other illegal activity by bad actors. ...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (the "CTA") became effective on January 1, 2024, requiring many corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and other entities to register with and report certain...more
On Monday, July 8, 2024, the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released additional FAQs specifying that a reporting company (i.e., a company to which no exemption applies) created or...more
What Does it Mean for Your Business? This article updates and provides new information and guidance and replaces our original article dated August 3, 2023. On January 1, 2024, the Corporate Transparency Act (the “Act”...more
Effective January 1, 2024, your business may be required to submit information to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) about your owners pursuant to the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”)....more