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On February 26, 2010, the Internal Revenue Service and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury each issued guidance concerning Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) filings on Form TD F 90-22.1. Generally, U.S. persons or entities having a financial interest in or signatory authority over financial accounts located in foreign countries with an aggregate value greater than $10,000 are required to file an FBAR annually, on or before June 30 of the year following the applicable reporting year (e.g., June 30, 2010, for the 2009 reporting year).
FinCEN's guidance comes in the form of proposed regulations that clarify which persons will be required to file the FBAR and which foreign accounts will in fact be reportable. The proposed rules would also exempt certain persons from the filing requirement and include provisions intended to prevent those who are required to file from avoiding their reporting obligation. The IRS issued its FBAR guidance in the form of Notice 2010-23 and Announcement 2010-16. The latter temporarily suspends the FBAR filing requirement for persons who are not U.S. citizens, U.S. residents or domestic entities, while the former provides FBAR and Form 1040 filing relief for certain persons having a financial interest in or signature authority over a foreign financial account.
The IRS Guidance
IRS Notice 2010-23 modifies and supplements Notice 2009-62 (which provided a filing extension until June 30, 2010, to the below categories of filers), by providing the following:
While Notice 2010-23 gives those persons having only signature authority with respect to a foreign financial account a one-year filing extension, it is important to note that U.S. persons having a financial interest in such foreign accounts, including foreign mutual funds, will be required to file an FBAR (and, if applicable, report the existence and location of the foreign financial accounts on their Form 1040 for the 2009 tax year) no later than June 30, 2010.
In Announcement 2010-16, the IRS suspends the FBAR filing requirement for 2009 and prior calendar years for persons who are not U.S. citizens, U.S. residents or domestic entities, even if those persons were in, and doing business in, the United States. This announcement supplements and supersedes Announcement 2009-51, which allowed persons to rely on the definition of "United States Person" found in the July 2000 version of the FBAR form for 2009 and prior calendar years to determine if they had a filing obligation rather than on the definition in the October 2008 revised version of the FBAR form.
The Proposed FinCEN Rules
The proposed FBAR filing regulations provide guidance on the following issues, among others:
It should be noted that the regulations proposed by FinCEN are not yet effective, and there is no indication therein that they may be relied upon pending issuance of a final rule.
On June 29, Day Pitney Trusts and Estates Attorney Leigh Furtado will be presenting at the National Business Institute on, "Rhode Island Estate Administration From Start to Finish."
On June 22, Day Pitney Art Law Attorney Melissa A. Passman will be a speaker at the "The Art of Collection Management: Estate Planning for Art Collectors," webinar for the Artwork Archive.
On June 16, Art Law Attorney Melissa A. Passman will be a speaker on the "A Primer on Artist Trusts: Part 1," panel at the Center for Art Law.
Day Pitney Trusts and Estate Attorneys G. Warren Whitaker and Matthew L. Moore authored the article, "The Dogs Ate My Kids' Inheritance: Providing for Pets in an Estate Plan," for PLI Chronicle.
Day Pitney Trusts and Estates Attorney Christopher Fox is speaking at the Boston Bar Association's "Trusts & Estates End of Year Review 2022," webinar on June 14.
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Day Pitney Partners George Chaclas and Renee Evangelista were each honored with a Rhode Island Monthly Professional Excellence in Law Award for 2022.
Day Pitney Providence-based Trusts and Estates Attorney Leigh E. Furtado was featured in the Providence Business News article titled, "Crypto Can Complicate Trust, Estate Planning."
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