The Common Reporting Standard Isle of Man Regulations

The Common Reporting Standard Isle of Man Regulations

Application of the CRS for Isle of Man Financial Institutions - UPDATED 21 December 2017 -

Guidance Note GN 53

Issued by the Income Tax Division 21 December 2017

THE COMMON REPORTING STANDARD ISLE OF MAN GUIDANCE NOTES UPDATED 21 December 2017

This booklet is intended only as a general guide and must be read in conjunction with the appropriate legislation. It does not have any binding force and does not affect a person's right of appeal on points concerning their own liability to income tax.

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Contents

1 OVERVIEW....................................................................................................................................... 8

1.1 General.................................................................................................................................... 8

1.2 Effective Implementation ....................................................................................................... 8

2 MECHANISM FOR EXCHANGE ....................................................................................................... 10

2.1 General.................................................................................................................................. 10

2.1.1

Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement and the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters..................................................................... 10

2.1.2

Competent Authority Agreements, Double Taxation Agreements and Tax Information Exchange Agreements................................................................................................... 10

2.2 Committed Jurisdictions ....................................................................................................... 10

2.2.1 Participating Jurisdictions ............................................................................................. 10

2.2.2 Reportable Jurisdictions................................................................................................ 11

2.2.3 Isle of Man Reportable Jurisdictions............................................................................. 11

2.2.4 Update of the Lists ........................................................................................................ 12

2.3 Early Adopters and Fast Followers........................................................................................ 13

2.3.1 Early Adopters............................................................................................................... 13

2.3.2 Fast Followers ............................................................................................................... 13

3 ISLE OF MAN OPTIONS.................................................................................................................. 15

3.1 General.................................................................................................................................. 15

3.2 Wider Approach .................................................................................................................... 15

3.3 Due Diligence ........................................................................................................................ 15

3.3.1 New Accounts ............................................................................................................... 15

3.3.2 Pre-Existing Accounts.................................................................................................... 15

3.3.3 High Value Accounts ..................................................................................................... 16

3.3.4 Lower Value Accounts................................................................................................... 16

3.3.5 Entity Accounts ............................................................................................................. 17

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3.3.6 Group Cash Value Insurance or Group Annuity Contracts............................................ 18

3.3.7 Standardised Industry Codes and Indicia for Pre-Existing Entities ............................... 18

3.3.8

Pre-existing Cash Value Insurance Contracts or Annuity Contracts Unable to be Sold to Residents of Reportable Jurisdictions ........................................................................... 19

3.4 Reporting............................................................................................................................... 19

3.4.1 Reporting Period ........................................................................................................... 19

3.4.2 Nil Returns..................................................................................................................... 20

3.4.3 Third Party Service Providers ........................................................................................ 20

3.5 Definitions ............................................................................................................................. 20

3.5.1 Isle of Man Financial Institution.................................................................................... 20

3.5.2 Expanded Definition of Pre-Existing Account ............................................................... 21

3.5.3 Expanded Definition of Related Entity.......................................................................... 21

3.5.4 Controlling Person of a Trust ........................................................................................ 22

3.6 Non-Reporting Financial Institutions .................................................................................... 23

3.6.1 Qualified Credit Card Issuers......................................................................................... 24

3.6.2 Low Risk Entities............................................................................................................ 24

3.7 Excluded Financial Accounts ................................................................................................. 24

3.7.1 Retirement Accounts and Products .............................................................................. 24

3.7.2 Certain Depository Accounts ........................................................................................ 24

3.7.3 Dormant Accounts ........................................................................................................ 25

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FATCA vs. THE CRS ................................................................................................................ 26

4.1 General.................................................................................................................................. 26

4.2 Investment Entity Definition ................................................................................................. 26

4.2.1 FATCA (US IGA) Investment Entity Definition ............................................................... 27

4.2.2 Managed By ................................................................................................................. 28

4.2.3 Direct and Indirect Non-Financial Assets ...................................................................... 29

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5 ADDITIONAL CRS GUIDANCE......................................................................................................... 33 5.1 Account Closures and Transfers............................................................................................ 33 5.2 Non-Participating Jurisdiction Investment Entities............................................................... 33 5.3 Self-Certification Compliance and Undocumented Accounts............................................... 33 5.3.1 Timing of Self-Certification ? New Accounts ................................................................ 33 5.3.2 Undocumented Accounts ............................................................................................. 34 5.3.3 Self-Certification for Pre-Existing Accounts .................................................................. 34 5.4 Notification Requirement ..................................................................................................... 35 5.5 Entity Account Reporting ...................................................................................................... 35 5.5.1 Test 1............................................................................................................................. 36 5.5.2 Test 2............................................................................................................................. 36 5.5.3 CRS Schema Requirements ........................................................................................... 37 5.5.4 Entity Account Examples............................................................................................... 37 5.6 Controlling Persons ............................................................................................................... 41 5.7 Specified Insurance Companies - Branches .......................................................................... 42

6 REPORTING OBLIGATIONS ............................................................................................................ 44 6.1 General.................................................................................................................................. 44 6.2 Information Required............................................................................................................ 44 6.2.1 Taxpayer Identification Numbers (TINs) & Date of Birth .............................................. 44 6.2.2 Place of Birth ................................................................................................................. 45 6.3 Multi-Jurisdiction Reporting ................................................................................................. 45 6.4 Reporting on Cessation ......................................................................................................... 46

7 FORMAT OF REPORTING ............................................................................................................... 47 7.1 Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) ................................................................................... 47 7.2 Schema.................................................................................................................................. 47 7.3 Status Messages.................................................................................................................... 47

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7.4 Validation .............................................................................................................................. 48

7.4.1 Invalid Characters........................................................................................................ 48

7.4.2 MessageSpec................................................................................................................. 49

7.4.3 DocSpec......................................................................................................................... 49

7.4.4 ReportingFI.................................................................................................................... 50

7.4.5 AccountReport .............................................................................................................. 51

7.4.6 AccountHolderType ...................................................................................................... 52

7.5 TDTs....................................................................................................................................... 53

7.6 Consolidated Reporting ........................................................................................................ 54

7.7 Transmission to the Isle of Man Competent Authority ........................................................ 55

8 REGISTRATION .............................................................................................................................. 56

8.1 General.................................................................................................................................. 56

8.2 Which Financial Institutions Do Not Need to Register?........................................................ 56

9 COMPLIANCE................................................................................................................................. 57

9.1 Record Keeping ..................................................................................................................... 57

9.2 Minor Errors .......................................................................................................................... 57

9.3 Significant Non-Compliance.................................................................................................. 58

9.4 Penalties................................................................................................................................ 58

9.4.1 Failure to Comply .......................................................................................................... 59

9.4.2 Daily Default Penalty..................................................................................................... 59

9.4.3 Penalties for Inaccurate Information ............................................................................ 59

9.4.4 Appeals.......................................................................................................................... 59

9.5 Prevention of Avoidance....................................................................................................... 60

APPENDIX .............................................................................................................................................. 61

I.

Status of AEOI Commitments ............................................................................................... 61

II.

Participating Jurisdictions ..................................................................................................... 62

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Transition Years - 2016 and 2017 ................................................................................................. 62 III. Isle of Man Reportable Jurisdictions..................................................................................... 63 IV. Non-Reciprocal Jurisdictions ................................................................................................. 63 V. Reportable Jurisdictions........................................................................................................ 64 VI. 2018 ? PROVISIONAL Isle of Man Reportable Jurisdictions .................................................. 65 VII. COMMON REPORTING STANDARD....................................................................................... 66

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ISLE OF MAN GUIDANCE NOTES

UPDATED 21 December 2017

1 OVERVIEW

1.1 General

The Common Reporting Standard (CRS) was developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to put a global model of automatic exchange of information into practice and draws extensively on the intergovernmental approach taken in order to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).

Under the Standard, jurisdictions obtain financial account information from their Financial Institutions and automatically exchange that information with other Reportable Jurisdictions on an annual basis. The Standard consists of:

the CRS which contains the due diligence rules for Financial Institutions to follow in order to collect and then report the required information,

the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement (MCAA) or any bilateral Competent Authority Agreement (CAA) which links the CRS to the legal basis for exchange and contains the detailed rules on the information to be exchanged, and

The Commentaries that illustrate and interpret the MCAA and the CRS.

Under the CRS, Isle of Man Financial Institutions will provide the Assessor of Income Tax with the required information and the Assessor will exchange that information with the Competent Authority in the relevant jurisdictions.

The Isle of Man legislation dealing with the implementation of the CRS is the Income Tax (Common Reporting Standard) Regulations 2015 (the Isle of Man Regulations) and the Income Tax (Common Reporting Standard) (Amendment) Regulations 2017.

1.2 Effective Implementation

The CRS is a single, global standard for automatic exchange of information to better fight tax evasion and ensure tax compliance. Therefore, in order for it to be implemented effectively, it is imperative that all committed jurisdictions operate its provisions in a consistent manner.

For that reason this Guidance Note does not cover in detail the universal matters, applicable to all committed jurisdictions, which are covered in the OECD's Commentaries on the Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information.

In addition, guidance on practical aspects and the operation of the CRS can also be found in the OECD's CRS Implementation Handbook.

This Guidance Note includes references and quotes from both the Commentary and Handbook; the copyright owner of this material remains the OECD.

A Financial Institution must apply the Isle of Man Regulations in force at the time with reference to the CRS itself, the OECD's guidance and lastly this, the Isle of Man's own published guidance.

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