Non-US Domiciled Funds/ETFs and CRS

[Rentonx]

I'm an Argentina resident about to invest through a US broker in Ireland & Luxemburg-domiciled Funds and ETFs (which include US and non-US assets).

My question is: when it comes to CRS, will the assets I hold in the funds or ETFs be reported to Argentina through CRS (because Ireland and Luxemburg, the countries where the funds are domiciled are part of CRS) or will they not (because the US, where my broker is domiciled, is not part of CRS)?

 

[zzzzzz]

Rentonx said:
I'm an Argentina resident about to invest through a US broker in Ireland & Luxemburg-domiciled Funds and ETFs (which include US and non-US assets).

My question is: when it comes to CRS, will the assets I hold in the funds or ETFs be reported to Argentina through CRS (because Ireland and Luxemburg, the countries where the funds are domiciled are part of CRS) or will they not (because the US, where my broker is domiciled, is not part of CRS)?
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If your broker is in US, your brokerage account and income will be reported to Argentina via FATCA agreement.

 

[Rentonx]

@zzzzzz thank you kindly for your reply. So you are saying that a fund or ETF's domicile country bears no relationship with how reporting to the investor's country would work? Just the brokerage's domicile matter for this?

 

[JustAnotherNomad]

Will they really report automatically under FATCA? Is it not only on request from the Argentinian authorities?

 

[Martin Everson]

JustAnotherNomad said:
Will they really report automatically under FATCA?
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Yes FATCA is bilateral and automatic and people have been reported already.

Some good reading in this thread before asking further question on topic hap¤#".

https://www.offshorecorptalk.com/th...n-us-person-deposits-in-them.22676/post-68608

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[JustAnotherNomad]

Yeah, but Argentina is not on this list:
https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/tax-policy/foreign-account-tax-compliance-act
This article is a couple years old, but it doesn't sound like there's automatic reporting for Argentina:
https://canosa.com/argentina-united...-agreement-implementing-fatca-possibly-iga-1/

 

[Rentonx]

My question was not really about Argentina and FACTA, but about which country reports your holdings in Funds and ETFs. Is it the country where the fund/ETF is domiciled, or the country where your broker is domiciled?

 

[Martin Everson]

Rentonx said:
Is it the country where the fund/ETF is domiciled, or the country where your broker is domiciled?
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Answer is both can report depending on how you hold the assets either directly or via a broker.

https://assets.kpmg/content/dam/kpm...-investment-funds-and-investment-managers.pdf

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[Rentonx]

@Martin Everson Thanks for that! In my case, I would hold an Ireland fund or ETF via a U.S. broker. I understand the U.S. broker would report under FACTA, but would I get reported by the Ireland fund under CRS?

 

[zzzzzz]

Rentonx said:
My question was not really about Argentina and FACTA, but about which country reports your holdings in Funds and ETFs. Is it the country where the fund/ETF is domiciled, or the country where your broker is domiciled?
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USA brokers (at least IB) hold assests in their name, so if you have some ETF's form Ireland, IB is listed outside as "owner", not you.

Apparently USA doesn't have FATCA agreement with Argentina. And no reporting via CRS, since US didn't sign CRS agreement.

 

[Martin Everson]

Rentonx said:
@Martin Everson Thanks for that! In my case, I would hold an Ireland fund or ETF via a U.S. broker. I understand the U.S. broker would report under FACTA, but would I get reported by the Ireland fund under CRS?
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Good question. I honestly can't answer that because you would need to ask the broker on their custody and reporting arrangements. Brokers custody assets with different custodians, may hold in nominee name etc and often in different geographical locations which ultimately maybe subject to different handling and reporting rules etc. So ask broker.

zzzzzz said:
Apparently USA doesn't have FATCA agreement with Argentina.
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Does not matter as its down to each FI to register with FATCA and not the country. A FATCA agreement just mandates a countries FI's to register with FATCA. Each FI in Argentina can voluntarily register for FATCA and obtain a GIIN number for FATCA reporting. Looking at the FATCA register below of FI's in Argentina I see 1,493 FI's registered voluntarily...lol eek¤%&.

https://apps.irs.gov/app/fatcaFfiList/flu.jsf

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[JustAnotherNomad]

Martin Everson said:
Does not matter as its down to each FI to register with FATCA and not the country. A FATCA agreement just mandates a countries FI's to register with FATCA. Each FI in Argentina can voluntarily register for FATCA and obtain a GIIN number for FATCA reporting.
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Surely that must be about reporting on US citizens/residents, not the other way around? It wouldn't make sense for a US broker to report to all Argentinian FI's, just in case that person might also be a customer there?

 

[Rentonx]

JustAnotherNomad said:
Surely that must be about reporting on US citizens/residents, not the other way around? It wouldn't make sense for a US broker to report to all Argentinian FI's, just in case that person might also be a customer there?
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Yes, as I understand it from sources here, that's the case. It's a unilateral agreement

 

[Martin Everson]

JustAnotherNomad said:
Surely that must be about reporting on US citizens/residents, not the other way around? It wouldn't make sense for a US broker to report to all Argentinian FI's, just in case that person might also be a customer there?
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Yes for Argentina FI's that signed up it about reporting americans.

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[zzzzzz]

Martin Everson said:
Yes for Argentina FI's that signed up it about reporting americans.
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I assume @Rentonx is Argentinian citizen and resident, in that case it doesn't matter.