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International Tax Authority (ITA) To Host Live Seminar For Investment Entities

February 22nd, 2024|Categories: Notices, Press Release|

INTERNATIONAL TAX AUTHORITY (ITA) TO HOST LIVE SEMINAR FOR INVESTMENT ENTITIES Are you an Investment Entity subject to the reporting requirements

Tax Identification Number (TIN) Update

May 11th, 2023|

On December 30th, 2022, the United States Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) released Notice 2023-11 (the “2023 Notice”) for foreign financial institutions (“FFI”) in jurisdictions with a Model 1 Intergovernmental Agreement (“IGA”) in place. This Notice follows prior relief issued by the IRS in 2017, 2019, and 2021 that offered limited relief and additional

Updated Economic Substance Rules

February 24th, 2023|

The International Tax Authority (“ITA”) is pleased to announce that the updated Rules about the Economic Substance requirements under the Economic Substance (Companies and Limited Partnerships) Act, Revised Edition 2020 (as amended) (“ESA”) and the Beneficial Ownership Secure Search System Act, Revised Edition 2020 (as amended) (“BOSSs Act”), is now available on its

Economic Substance Request email

November 7th, 2022|

The International Tax Authority is informing all Financial Institutions that effective November 7th, 2022 all requests relating to Economic Substance such as re-openings, financial period change requests, and responses to non-relevant activity should be sent to the email address: Compliancerequests@bviita.vg.

Almost there! Fee implementation Update

October 27th, 2022|

The BVIFARs Portal fee implementation is on track for 2023. There has been a slight shift in the deadline with the portal now scheduled to go live before the end of the 1st quarter 2023! Once the portal becomes live further details about the following will be provided: process for making payment

BVI Financial Account Reporting System

The International Tax Authority has created a web-based portal to provide a secure environment for BVI Financial Institutions to satisfy their obligations under the Agreement between the Government of the British Virgin Islands and the Government of the United States of America to Improve Tax Compliance via the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (US FATCA), the Agreement between the Government of the British Virgin Islands and the Government of the United Kingdom to Improve International Tax Compliance (UK CDOT) and the Arrangement under the Common Reporting Standards (CRS).

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