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By Armin GRAY, Benjamin TOLUB Gavin WARD(1)
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) was passed in 2021 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act. The CTA was intended to help prevent financial crimes such as money laundering and tax evasion by requiring closely held companies to report their beneficial owners.
One rationale for passing such law was to stop foreign adversaries from laundering money through the U.S. including U.S. real estate. However, many times this information was already required to be reported for foreign investors to the U.S. tax authority. Nonetheless, the CTA requires similar information to be provided to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen). FinCen is a U.S. governmental organization in charge...
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