CTA Quick Links
- Executive Summary
- What Should You do about Compliance?
- Is Your Company Required to Report?
- What is Your Company Required to Report?
- Beneficial Ownership – Ownership Interests
- Beneficial Ownership – Substantial Control
- What is a FinCEN ID?
- What Should You do if Your Company is Exempt?
- What Might Trigger a Reporting Requirement?
- What Updates To Documents Should You Consider?
- Can You Backdate Agreements under CTA?
Stay Up-to-Date
The FinCEN website provides a variety of useful resources that are worth checking periodically.
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The Corporate Transparency Act
New reporting obligations for many small businesses.
UPDATE:
On March 1, 2024, a US District Court declared the CTA unconstitutional. The ruling only applies to the plaintiffs in that case. We expect to see more legal challenges to this law in the coming months, but for now, only the plaintiffs in that case are affected. Everyone else should continue to comply with the law. You can read more about the case here.
Contents
What Should Business Owners and Executives Know About the CTA? The Corporate Transparency Act (the CTA) is now in effect and imposes important new reporting obligations on many small businesses. Read more.
Understand the basics, delegate responsiblity, and adopt a plan. Read more.
Your company is required to report under the CTA if it is a “Reporting Company,” unless it qualifies for an exemption. Read more.
All Reporting Companies must make an initial filing with FinCEN disclosing the necessary Beneficial Ownership information. Read more.
In spite of the name “Beneficial Owner,” the term is far broader than simply including direct and indirect owners, and may include directors, officers, employees, creditors, and others, and individuals. Read more.
In spite of the name “Beneficial Owner,” the term is far broader than simply including direct and indirect owners, and may include directors, officers, employees, creditors, and others, and individuals. Read more.
A FinCEN ID is an identification number that an individual or company can obtain that can limit the number of times they may need to provide the required information in connection with CTA filings. Read more about why you’d need one.
Think you’re exempt? The penalties for getting it wrong can be severe. Read more.
There are quite a few transactions and events that could lead to CTA reporting requirements. Read more.
Consider tasking whomever will lead your CTA compliance efforts do a comprehensive review of relevant agreements and policies to identify where changes may need to be made. Read more.
It has long been a common practice to backdate agreements for clean dates or other reasons. Read more how CTA impacts this commonplace technique.
These resources are provided for general informational purposes only, and are not legal advice. These resources do not form an attorney-client relationship.
