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FATCA Preparation: What Financial Institutions can do to Get Started (Spanish Version)

In this podcast, Alfonso Montemayor outlines the steps that all foreign financial institutions should start as soon as possible, if they have not already started, to prepare for the implementation of FATCA.  FATCA, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, in some way, will affect every foreign financial institution.  If a financial institution wants to minimize the effect and possible damage, which includes a potential 30% withholding on select payments, foreign financial institutions need to start getting ready now. FATCA mandates that foreign financial institutions, or FFIs, identify U.S. taxpayers with accounts at the FFI or suffer the 30% withholding.  To avoid the withholding tax FATCA requires FFIs obtain and report information on its accounts used in whole or in part by U.S. taxpayers to the IRS. 

En este podcast, Alfonso Montemayor describe los pasos que toda institución financiera extranjera debe tomar lo mas pronto posible, si es que no han sido tomados ya, para preparase para la implementación de La Ley de Cumplimiento Fiscal de Cuentas Extranjeras (FATCA). FATCA de alguna forma u otra afectara a cada institución financiera extranjera. Si una institución financiera desea minimizar el efecto y posibles daños, incluyendo potencialmente una retención del 30% en pagos seleccionados, las instituciones financieras deben de comenzar a prepararse ahora mismo. FATCA ordena que las instituciones financieras extranjeras, o FFI, identifiquen a los contribuyentes de EEUU con cuentas en la FFI para evitar sufrir dicha retención del 30%. FATCA exige que las FFI obtengan y reporten información sobre sus cuentas usadas en su totalidad o en parte por contribuyentes de EEUU al Servicio de Impuestos Internos.

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