Ownership Filing Stopped
From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson. Farmers, ranchers, and other small businesses can breathe a sigh of relief: they no longer have to file ‘beneficial ownership information’ with the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
The on-again, off-again Biden-era ownership filing requirement was set to take effect January 1st, but a new
Treasury Department interim final rule ends the mandate.
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s Kent Bacus says it’s a big burden off producers …
BACUS … “There was a lot of concern that many businesses who were unaware of this could get caught up in the compliance part of it, and that could have led to a lot of penalties. It could have led to prison time for some people.”
But Bacus says the Trump administration headed off small business ownership reporting …
BACUS … “The Treasury Department has released an interim rule that says that this will only apply to foreign reporting companies. So, this is a big win for us. It’s a big win for small businesses all over rural America.”
It’s a win for certainty and common sense under the Corporate Transparency Act …
BACUS … “These small businesses in rural America are not the money launderers that this law was designed to go after. So, we’re going to not enforce this for them. We’re going to go after the people we really suspect.”
But Bacus says Congress must provide a permanent solution to the issue still litigating in the courts.
