The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced two countries have been added to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) watchlist, while another has been removed.
The FATF grey list identifies countries where increased financial monitoring is necessary to combat money laundering, terrorist financing, and nuclear weapons proliferation. FinCEN said Laos and Nepal have been added, while the Philippines have been removed, according to a press release Wednesday.
Laos and Nepal made a “high-level political commitment” to work with the FATF and the Asian Pacific Group on Money Laundering to strengthen the effectiveness of their anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regime, according to an FATF press release Friday.
The Internal Revenue Service has wrapped up its annual Dirty Dozen campaign, which it self-proclaims as “the worst of the worst” tax scams. The last few scams in the series leave a lot to be unpacked.
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The Ministry of National Economy and Finance introduced a tax bill that contains several changes to the Golden Visa Program, including measures to shift foreigners’ interest from real estate investment
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