Part one of a two-part series Since the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) was enacted in January 2021, there have been many questions about what kinds of companies will have to report under the law and how beneficial ownership will be defined. On September 30, 2022, after months of development, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued the final rule for beneficial ownership reporting under the Corporate Transparency Act. The final rule, which will ease compliance burdens on companies,...

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Editor's Note: The California Privacy Protection Agency released amendments to its draft regulations, and the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau contemplates rulemaking on sharing financial data. In U.S. litigation, the first Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act jury trial took place, and the Third Circuit provided further guidance on data breach litigation. In international news, the French Data Protection Authority fined Clearview AI for personal information collection violations. US Laws and Regulation CPPA Publishes Updates to Draft Regulations. On November 3, the...

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The EACC, in partnership with the International Property Tax Institute (IPTI), wants to keep its members up to date with the latest developments in property taxes in the USA and Europe. IPTI has put together below a selection of articles from IPTI Xtracts; more articles can be found on its website (www.ipti.org). United States New York: Real Estate Makes Up Larger Share Of NYC's Tax Revenue Even Amid Value Reset Real estate taxes have steadily become a larger and larger part of...

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In this week’s Roar: changing tide for US import volumes, pessimism from retailers, hope for a turnaround in air freight, the ongoing impact of the Ukraine war, and the latest on autonomous trucks. How low can we go? Things have been looking bad over the last several months in terms of US imports. Volumes took a hit in September, with their deepest decline since lockdowns went into effect in 2020. At the rate they were dropping, October would have seen...

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The EU Court's ruling of 7 November 2022 is a major victory for Fiat and the fiscal autonomy of the EU Member States. It rejects the European Commission's ("Commission") assessment of the application of the arm's length principle ("ALP") under Luxembourg law that had previously been upheld by the General Court ("GC"). More importantly, it dismisses the Commission's plea for an autonomous interpretation and application of the ALP under the EU State aid rules, and as such the judgment...

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