Background
The IRS issued proposed regulations implementing FATCA on February 8, 2012. The proposed regulations allow the government to use reciprocal agreements with foreign governments to achieve the goals of FATCA, rather than through the foreign FIs directly reporting to the IRS.
In July 2012, the United States released two versions of a "model intergovernmental agreement" to achieve the goals of FATCA by establishing a framework for reporting by non-U.S. financial institutions of certain financial account information to their respective tax authorities, followed by an automatic exchange of such information under existing bilateral tax treaties or tax information exchange agreements. These agreements were developed in consultation with European countries such as France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.
Comments on negotiations
While Finance noted that many individuals and groups have provided comments on many issues resulting from the FATCA provisions, it will accept additional comments.
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