It says millions of companies might be busy over the holidays forking over their data to the Treasury Department thanks to a last minute ruling from the US Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit. The Fifth Circuit on Monday overturned a lower court’s injunction against the constitutionally dubious law that requires the county’s estimated 32.6 million active companies to submit their private ownership information to a central database ran by the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Fincen. Now, why is this a big deal? Because companies have been getting ready for this for a long time, but then they put off their filings because of this injunction, right? I saw a lot of attorneys come out and say, don’t worry, you don’t need to file this, you don’t need to identify yourself.

And so a bunch of companies listened. Now all of a sudden, it’s overturned and companies have less than a week to file this or they’re going to have penalties. I contacted my corporate attorney, which I’m actually going to today to film some final lessons for one of my courses. And we just finished the corporation or LLC trips and trips course. If you want it down below, I’m going to throw an insane price of $35 down below. If you’ve ever wanted to start another LLC, a new LLC or a corporation down below, it’s going to save you a lot of time and money.

My point being, as I talked to Ted Sutton and he said, no way, we’re not, we’re still advising every single one of our clients to file this document because what if it gets overturned? And now it does. Let’s read a little bit more about this because it’s very important companies know what’s going on. Says here, the ruling means that all companies formed prior to 2024 must file a report with the Treasury by next Wednesday, January 1st. Why does it say before 2024? Because anyone formed in 2024, it’s already been baked into the cake. They’ve already filed the proper documents.

It says enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act has been reinstated along with the impending January 1st, 2025 filing deadline. It says these reports provide basic legal information about the company itself, its entities, owners and the individuals that create or register the entity. Think about shell corporations and how wealthy people or criminals are trying to hide themselves. That’s what this is preventing. Says here, additionally, a potential new administration may take steps to limit the CTA, adding another layer of uncertainty for business. The cost of the compliance with the new law is estimated to be some $22.7 billion in the first year and $5.6 billion per year after.

The U.S. government and liberal activists have argued for decades that the central beneficial ownership registry is required to curtail money laundering. Critics have pointed out the central registry would pose privacy risks and impose another layer of regulation on private business. Moreover, criminals would voluntarily submit their personal information for such a registry. It says there’s currently six plaintiffs suing over the law, including two that don’t do business outside their respective states. Another plaintiff was a libertarian party of Mississippi, which is a nonprofit political entity, but would have still had to register under the Corporate Transparency Act. Look, the fact of the matter is I don’t like this just as much as the next guy.

But the fact is the government’s coming after everyone with an entity, an LLC, a corporation and so much more to provide their information or contact information as being beneficial owners of those entities. And if not, there’s going to be some serious penalties. And so this is where we’re at. So if you have an entity that’s been formed prior to 2024, you have to go and file the proper information. If you guys want to start an entity and you want to do it right, you want to do it for less costs and make sure it’s done right the first time.

The company that I have worked with forever to do many of my entities, I think we’re like eight and eight or more now at this point. They’re the ones that did this course with me. So if you want to learn a lot about incorporation entities like LLCs for a fraction of the cost, it’s going to cost for just one hour of an attorney time. No joke, less than 10 percent of the cost. The sale is down below for LLC and corporation tips and tricks. It’s 35 bucks until the end of the year. I hope you got something out of this.

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