The Governments of Guernsey, the Isle of Man and Jersey
simultaneously announced their intention to negotiate partnership
agreements with the United States of America to implement the
Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).
FATCA is US legislation which aims to combat tax evasion by US
persons holding accounts and other financial products or assets
abroad. FATCA imposes obligations on certain US taxpayers holding
financial assets outside the USA and requires foreign financial
institutions (FFIs) to report to the Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) certain information about
accounts held for US persons.
Discussions have taken place at official level between the Crown
Dependencies jointly and the USA and formal negotiations will now
take place with the intention of concluding intergovernmental
agreements rapidly. Once signed, they will be subject to
ratification by each of the Island parliaments and implementation
of the agreements will be through the domestic legislative
procedures relevant to each of the three jurisdictions.
These agreements will follow the model intergovernmental agreement
published by the US Government on 26 July 2012 and will be similar
in form to the agreement between the United Kingdom and the USA
signed on 12 September 2012.
For more information go to www.whereyoucan.im/FATCA.
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