The Corporate Transparency Act takes effect January 1, 2024, requiring LLCs and corporations to report beneficial owners to FinCEN. Failure to comply costs $500 per day and up to two years in prison. The law targets money laundering and terrorist financing, ending the anonymity many sought when forming an LLC.
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If you have an LLC, this is going to cost you $500 a day in 2024 and up to 2 years in prison if you violate this. This is a huge change for small businesses. So if you have an LLC, you must pay attention. On January 1st, 2024, the Corporate Transparency Act goes into effect. Under this new act, domestic and foreign companies will be required to disclose information about their beneficial owners. This act was passed to combat money laundering, terrorist financing, and other types of illegal activity. So if you have a corporation, an LLC, a limited partnership, or any other type of similar entity within the United States, you will be subject to this new act. You're going to be required to provide identifying information about the corporate entity as well as the owner. The information will have to be provided to the US Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. The information will not be publicly available on any database. This will certainly not benefit those of you who have formed LLCs for purposes of anonymity.