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U.S. IRS Announces Start of Automatic Exchange of Information under FATCA IGAs

07 October 2015

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United States

On 2 October 2015, the U.S. IRS announced that it has begun the automatic exchange of financial account information under intergovernmental agreements for FATCA. --- WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today announced the exchange of financial account information with certain foreign tax administrations, meeting a key Sept. 30 milestone related to FATCA, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. To achieve this, the IRS successfully and timely developed the information system infrastructure, procedures, and data use and confidentiality safeguards to protect taxpayer data while facilitating reciprocal automatic exchange of tax information with certain foreign jurisdiction tax administrators as specified under...