The reporting deadline of the annual CRS and FATCA submissions for several participating jurisdictions is drawing near, as it is set for between the end of June and August 2020.
CRS & FATCA Reporting Requirements
The Common Reporting Standard (CRS) requires financial institutions to report annually to their local tax authorities information on their clients that are tax residents of other participating jurisdictions to be passed on to the relevant tax authorities.
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) requires financial institutions to report annually to their local tax authorities information on their USA clients to be passed on to the US tax administration.
The specific reporting deadline for each jurisdiction is provided below:
Challenges & Risks
Firms face a number of challenges and risks that need to be addressed in order to proceed with the pertinent submissions before the deadline:
Challenges:
- Analysis & interpretation of the requirements, which consist of over 300 pages of guidelines to read.
- More than 65 fields per record to complete.
- Complicated multilevel XML files.
- Different jurisdictions with each posing a different set of challenges.
Risks:
- Incorrect completion of CRS and FATCA submissions.
- Failure to meet the reporting deadline and overall requirements.
- Costly investment in resources to help you file the relevant submissions, which in turn may place a burden on your budget.
- Disruption of your daily operations.
- Incorrect or false submissions that may result in a withholding penalty to specific payments.
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How can MAP FinTech assist you?
MAP FinTech can fully support your business’ regulatory reporting needs.
ΜΑΡ CRS/FATCA Reporting Service provides a user-friendly approach to receiving, validating, transforming and submitting the relevant information required under the CRS/FATCA reporting and due diligence rules.
This service is delivered via our single platform Polaris, together with the rest of its reporting offerings and our team of experts’ impeccable support services.
ΜΑΡ CRS/FATCA – Key Features
- Cost-efficient integrated reporting solutions provided under a single platform.
- Highly automated and scalable solution that can report as many accounts as you have.
- Flexible in the way it receives data, either via standard templates or raw data.
- Multiple reporting health checks for both content and schema and automatic filtering of erroneous entries.
- Automatic conversion of data to XML and separation of files based on tax residency.
- Submissions to various tax authorities worldwide.
On-going communication with regulators to ensure the system reports reflect regulatory updates and changes.
About MAP FinTech
MAP FinTech is a leading and award-winning regulatory technology provider for the financial services industry, specialising in reporting solutions arising from the requirements of a number of complex and challenging international regulations such as EMIR, MiFID II/MiFIR, SFTR, FATCA and CRS. MAP FinTech also provides innovative and comprehensive solutions for Best Execution Monitoring, RTS 27/28 reporting, AI-Enabled AML Transaction Monitoring and Screening, Trade Surveillance (Market Abuse), and eKYC (Screening, eIDV, Document Authentication).
For more information on ΜΑΡ CRS/FATCA Reporting Services, please visit our website at www.mapfintech.com or contact our team at +357 2535 1335 / +44 207 060 5540 or via email at info@mapfintech.com.