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中国的也就是个早晚而已。
ATO hands over bank details to US Internal Revenue Service
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/economics/ato-hands-ov
Australia’s tax information exchange agreements have come under challenge
in some jurisdictions, most notably the Cayman Islands. Source: News Corp
Australia
The Australian Taxation Office has handed the US Internal Revenue Service
details of more than 30,000 bank accounts containing more than $5 billion in
the first transfer of information under America’s Foreign Account Tax
Compliance Act.
FATCA is part of a network of international arrangements under which revenue
departments around the world have agreed to swap information about each
other’s taxpayers.
The ATO said that in return for supplying the FATCA data, the IRS will give
it information about Australians with US accounts that will be used to root
out undeclared offshore income.
Its figures imply the accounts, revealed to the IRS in the first tranche of
data, have an average balance of more than $160,000.
From 2017, almost 100 countries have agreed to swap information under a
common reporting standard set up by the Paris-based Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development.
FATCA, which brought Australian banks accounts into its net last July, is
designed to root out undisclosed accounts held by Americans around the world.
It was part of a suite of laws introduced in 2010 in response to the global
financial crisis.
The law imposes a steep penalty on institutions anywhere in the world that
fail to give over information in the shape of a 30 per cent withholding tax
on payments to them that come from the US. Australia’s financial sector
complained bitterly about the increased compliance costs imposed by FATCA,
estimated by former Treasurer Joe Hockey to be as high as $1bn over 10 years
, unless the government passed legislation easing their load.
This was because the American reporting requirements contravened Australian
privacy law and because FATCA generally requires each account to be directly
reported to the IRS.
However, Australia’s usually powerful banking sector found itself impotent
in the face of the US’s unilateral action.
Last April, Australia signed a deal with the US under which Australian banks
weren’t required to directly deal with the IRS but instead hand
information over to the ATO — a move that then-Financial Services Council
chief executive John Brogden said would “save hundreds of millions of
dollars in compliance costs”.
The FSC has also expressed concern about increased compliance costs under
the OECD common reporting standard, but yesterday the ATO said it was
committed to the program and “ensuring that taxpayers are disclosing their
offshore income”.
While Australia’s tax information exchange agreements have come under
challenge in some jurisdictions, most notably the Cayman Islands, the ATO
said that last financial year it used them to raise tax bills of $255m. |
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