The Corporate Transparency ACT (CTA) was passed by Congress in 2021 to fight money laundering, terrorism financing, and other fraudulent activities by collecting ownership data for certain types of companies operating in the United States. Since criminal actors and organizations commonly use “shell” companies to hide the flow of their illegally obtained money, the CTA aims to shine some light on the true owners of these companies. Under the CTA, small businesses that qualify as “reporting companies” will have to submit a Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) Report to the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), that provides identifying information about the company’s “beneficial owners.” With the data collected from these reports, FinCen will create a national registry of reporting companies and their beneficial owners, only accessible to law enforcement agencies and qualified financial institutions. https://youtu.be/AjxZ19HmDZM?featur
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