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Attention small businesses.
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) went into effect on January 1, 2024, to help "prosecute and deter money laundering," to "deter tax fraud," and to deter the peaceful operation of small businesses whose owners don't have time to stay current on every new complex regulation.
Lawyer Lee Phillips said that CTA requires companies to file new sets of paperwork with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) and are essentially being investigated for a crime. Reporting is mandatory. Failure to comply with CTA carries a maximum fine of $500 per day up to $10,000 and criminal penalties, including up to two years in prison.
Simon Black says small businesses are targeted while large, publicly traded companies are specifically exempt from reporting under the CTA. So are hedge funds, banks, and other large financial entities. Heads-up, small business owners.
"In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. "
-- James Monroe, speech to the US Congress on December 2, 1823
