Important
All investors must complete this section to declare their FATCA and CRS status. The Trustee or the administrator is unable to provide you with tax or professional advice in respect of FATCA or CRS, and we strongly encourage you to seek the advice of an experienced tax or professional adviser in relation to completing this form.
What are FATCA & CRS?
The U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) are two ways in which a large number of governments are seeking the same thing – to improve global tax compliance. Both require financial institutions to capture relevant information on foreign taxpayers, as follows:
FATCA promotes cross-border tax compliance by U.S. taxpayers by implementing an international standard for the automatic exchange of information related to those taxpayers. Australia has entered into an inter-governmental agreement (IGA) with the U.S. to implement FATCA in Australia, to be administered through the ATO. The AUS-USA FATCA IGA requires the ATO to obtain detailed account information for U.S. citizens and/or taxpayers on an annual basis. The effect of this is that to satisfy their FATCA obligations, relevant Australian financial institutions must identify any U.S. taxpayers and report those taxpayers’ financial account data to the ATO.
CRS is a global reporting standard developed by the OECD for the automatic exchange of information (AEoI). Its goal is to allow tax authorities to obtain a clearer understanding of financial assets held abroad by their residents for tax purposes. Over 88 countries (refer to OECD link in section IV for participating jurisdictions) have agreed to share information on residents’ assets and incomes in accordance with defined reporting standards. Once again, this means that financial institutions around the globe must provide tax authorities with taxpayer financial account data, and the financial institutions must therefore collect this information from their customers and pass it on.
If you are unable to complete Section 2, please seek appropriate advice relating to the tax information required. For further details relating to the implementation of FATCA and CRS, please refer to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) website.
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