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Section FATCA Amendment in a Nutshell

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Full text of Section FATCA Amendment

FATCA Withholding Tax:

The following is added at the end of Section 2(d) as new section 2(d)(iv):

2(d)(iv) Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. The words “any tax from any payment” in any Payer Tax Representation and the definition of “Indemnifiable Tax” each excludes any tax imposed under Sections 1471 and 1472 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, (or the United States Treasury Regulations or other guidance issued thereunder) (“FATCA Withholding Tax”).

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FATCA and the HIRE Act are what this is all about. A proposed amendment to the form to deal with these taxes which were introduced after the global financial crisis

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Summary

You will see the attached added as a result of FATCA, so that a withholding imposed as a result of FATCA is excluded from the definition of Indemnifiable Tax — a definition which is already a quintuple negative, so this truly propels it into the stratosphere of convoluted drafting.

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General discussion

The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act — it its amigos, FATCA — is a US federal law requiring all non-U.S. foreign financial institutions identify those of their customers with “indicia” of a connection to the U.S., including being born there or having lived there, and report them and their assets to the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

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