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Form 8957 - Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) Registration

IC 206206 under ICR 201809-1545-023 · OMB 1545-2246.

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Document Name	Document Type
Form 8957 Form 8957 - Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) Registration	Form
i8957--2018-.pdf	Instruction
8957 Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) Registration f8957--2018-.pdf	Form

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IC Title:

Form 8957 - Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) Registration

Agency IC Tracking Number:

Is this a Common Form? No

IC Status: Modified

Obligation to Respond: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits

CFR Citation: 26 CFR 1.1471-1

Information Collection Instruments:

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Document Type	Form No.	Form Name	Instrument File	URL	Available Electronically?	Can Be Submitted Electronically?	Electronic Capability
Form	8957	Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) Registration	f8957--2018-.pdf		Yes	No	Fillable Fileable
Instruction			i8957--2018-.pdf		Yes	No	Printable Only

Federal Enterprise Architecture Business Reference Module

Line of Business: General Government

Subfunction: Taxation Management

Privacy Act System of Records

Title: IRS: 42.017, International Enforcement Program Files; 42.021, Compliance Programs and Project Files; 24.030, Customer Account Data Engine Individual Master File; and 34.037, IRS Audit Trail and Securi

FR Citation: 80 FR 54064

Number of Respondents: 30,620

Number of Respondents for Small Entity: 0

Affected Public: Private Sector

Private Sector: Businesses or other for-profits

Percentage of Respondents Reporting Electronically: 50 %

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	Approved	Change Due to Adjustment in Agency Estimate	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses for this IC	30,620	-229,380	260,000
Annual IC Time Burden (Hours)	249,247	-1,867,153	2,116,400
Annual IC Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

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