BREAKING! Corporate Transparency Act Halted in its Tracks
Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.D.
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Breaking news on the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA).
With this court decision issued March 1 2024, millions of overwhelmed small business owners can now take a breather from scouring FinCEN’s website and go back to running their businesses.
The UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA NORTHEASTERN DIVISION in (Case Number 5:22-cv-1448-LCB) NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS ) UNITED v. JANET YELLEN held that the CTA is unconstitutional. The Constitution does not give Congress the power to regulate millions of entities and their stakeholders simply because they have obtained a formal corporate (or similar) status from a State.
FinCEN estimates that the CTA applies to 32.6 million currently existing entities and 5 million new entities formed each year from 2025 to 2034.
Certainly this holding will be appealed by the government. The constitutional challenge is far from over.?Regardless, the court's ruling will help focus everyone's attention --- CTA is a perfect example of Congressional overreach. Such overreach, left unchecked, poses a massive threat to the privacy of not only Americans, but to law abiding foreign investors to the USA.
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8 个月Of course, the information for many has already been submitted … me included.
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8 个月Note that the decision enjoins enforcement of the CTA only against the plaintiffs, so although it's arguably murky at the moment, right now there is nothing to indicate that the decision applies beyond the plaintiffs in this case (side note: it's yet ANOTHER question whether every member of the National Small Business Association is considered a plaintiff, or just the entity itself). I think all therefore need to be careful in advising business owners at this point, as the inevitable appeals process plays out. For those with entities formed before 2024, they have all of 2024 to file, so sitting back and seeing if there is any further legal movement by year-end, before filing, makes a lot of sense. But what about those with entities formed in 2024? Those entities have only 90 days from when they are formed to file, so not filing and the law eventually holding up could result in those not timely satisfying the filing requirements having committed a crime by sitting idle. The prudent decision, therefore, for those with entities formed in 2024, seems to be to go ahead and file.
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8 个月Great news. But people have to push back on this in general and stop falling for "national security" as the excuse for building tyranny.