FATCA Withholding Tax - ISDA Provision

2002 ISDA Master Agreement A Jolly Contrarian owner’s manual™ FATCA Amendment in a Nutshell™ The JC’s Nutshell™ summaries are moving to the subscription-only ninja tier. For the cost of ½ a weekly 🍺 you can get them here. Sign up at Substack. FATCA Amendment in all its glory 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”). edit Related agreements and comparisons Click here for the text of Section FATCA Amendment in the 1992 ISDA Template:Isdadiff FATCA Amendment Resources and Navigation This provision in the 1992 Resources Wikitext | Nutshell wikitext | 1992 ISDA wikitext | 2002 vs 1992 Showdown | 2006 ISDA Definitions | 2008 ISDA | JC’s ISDA code project Navigation Preamble | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 Events of Default: 5(a)(i) Failure to Pay or Deliver • 5(a)(ii) Breach of Agreement • 5(a)(iii) Credit Support Default • 5(a)(iv) Misrepresentation • 5(a)(v) Default Under Specified Transaction • 5(a)(vi) Cross Default • 5(a)(vii) Bankruptcy • 5(a)(viii) Merger without Assumption • Termination Events: 5(b)(i) Illegality • 5(b)(ii) Force Majeure Event • 5(b)(iii) Tax Event • 5(b)(iv) Tax Event Upon Merger • 5(b)(v) Credit Event Upon Merger • 5(b)(vi) Additional Termination Event Index: Click ᐅ to expand: 2002 ISDA - Premium 1992 ISDA - Premium Premium version of this page

Overview

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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

Summary

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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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See also

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• Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act of 2009
• Tax
• HIRE Act