The Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition (FACT Coalition) sent a letter to the IRS in support of the Department of the Treasury’s Final and Temporary Regulations under Section 385 on the Treatment of Certain Interests in Corporations as Stock or Indebtedness. The full letter can be read below or downloaded here.
The Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition (FACT Coalition) submitted the below comments to the General Services Administration (GSA), in response to RFI #ID15170001, urging the agency to adopt a non-proprietary, open identifier system for use in federal procurement that includes the collection of information on the real people who own and control bidders of federal contracts and grants (also known as ‘beneficial owners’).
The FACT Coalition sent this memo to the Trump-Pence Presidential Transition Team regarding actions to combat terror financing; criminal money laundering; and waste, fraud, and abuse in government contracting.
The FACT Coalition filed a comment on October 3, 2016 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) cautioning the agency against proceeding with a rule to reduce disclosure to investors and urging the SEC to instead boost transparency through public country-by-country reporting.
The FACT Coalition and a broad alliance of other organizations and coalitions submitted comments to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)—urging the body to require multinational companies to be more transparent about their tax practices.
Rule Would Help Address Problem of Corporate Tax Inversions
The FACT Coalition submitted comments in support of a proposal from the U.S. Department of the Treasury to combat an egregious corporate tax avoidance technique known as earnings stripping. The rule is one of two Treasury proposals aimed at combatting so-called corporate tax inversions. FACT also submitted comments supporting the other proposal, which targets “serial inverters.”
