Update 22 May 2013

USDOJ Report of Investigation – OIG Reports – Special Reports Update
05/20/2013

Report of Investigation Concerning the Improper Disclosure of U.S. Department of Justice Information to a Member of the Media

Christine Lagarde jets back to Paris to be questioned over Tapie payou

She is the straight-talking first woman head of the IMF who is considered by some to be a potential future French president. He is a flamboyant crooner-turned-business-tycoon, whose bewilderingly eclectic career has included chatshow host and star of a TV cop-show after serving as a government minister under François Mitterrand and doing time in prison for football match-fixing...

23 May 2013

FATCA News and Information Newsletter

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sent this bulletin at 05/22/2013 02:59 PM EDT

ssue Number:  2013-6

Inside This Issue

1. Draft Forms W-8BEN, W-8BEN-E and W-9 Released for Comment

1.  Draft Forms W-8BEN, W-8BEN-E and W-9 Released for Comment

Draft Form W-8BEN

Draft Form W-8BEN-E

Draft Form W-9

Brussels to tighten rules on banks bailout

Brussels is to impose more stringent conditions on state bailouts for troubled banks, so that shareholders and junior bondholders suffer losses before taxpayers are asked to foot a rescue bi

 http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ef8c6f16-c2ed-11e2-9bcb-00144feab7de.html

22 May 2013

Europe closes in on tax havens; Austria agrees to swap bank data

BRUSSELS, May 22 (Reuters) – Europe moved closer to endin...

23 May 2013

FATCA News Update

Issue Number:  2013-6; Inside This Issue:

1. Draft Forms W-8BEN, W-8BEN-E and W-9 Released for Comment

1.  Draft Forms W-8BEN, W-8BEN-E and W-9 Released for Comment

Draft Form W-8BEN

Draft Form W-8BEN-E

Draft Form W-9

Model Intergovernmental Agreements (Model Agreements)

Following the enactment of FATCA, Treasury published the Model Intergovernmental Agreement to Improve Tax Compliance and to Implement FATCA. Use the links here to find the current version of the agreement you need.

• Reciprocal Model 1A Agreement, Preexisting TIEA or DTC
  (Updated 5-9-2013)
• Nonreciprocal Model 1B Agreement, Prexisting TIEA or DTC
  (Updated 5-9-2013)
• Nonreciprocal Model 1B Agreement, No TIEA or DTC (Updated 5-9-2013)
• Model 2 Agreement, Preexisting TIEA or DTC...