This advisory discusses the U.S. Treasury and IRS release of two sets of regulations relating to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). The new regulations were published in the Federal Register on March 6. Enacted by the 2010 HIRE Act, FATCA imposes a 30-percent withholding tax on certain payments to foreign financial institutions (FFIs) and passive non-financial foreign entities (NFFEs) that do not report information about their U.S. accounts and substantial U.S. owners, respectively. One set of the new regulations (T.D. 9657) modifies various provisions of the “final” FATCA regulations issued in January 2013. The other set of regulations (T.D. 9658) provides rules to coordinate the withholding and reporting regimes of Chapter 3, Chapter 61 and Section 3406 with FATCA.
The advisory is provided in PDF on the Alston & Bird website: www.alston.com/advisories/int-tax-march-2014
Written by Edward Tanenbaum, Partner, Federal & International Tax | Alston & Bird LLP
