FATCA Conference Call on July 21 at Noon (Eastern)

 

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July 1, 2011

TO: TAX COMMITTEE No. 41-11
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE No. 17-11 RE: FATCA CONFERENCE CALL ON JULY 21 AT NOON (EASTERN)

 

A conference call of the ICI’s Tax and International Committees will be held at noon (Eastern) on Thursday, July 21, to discuss the ICI’s comment letter [1] on the IRS’s second Notice [2] regarding the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (“FATCA”). [3] The Committees will consider in further detail the issues confronting the industry and additional points we should raise with Treasury Department and IRS personnel when we meet with them to discuss the letter and our concerns.

If you plan to participate, please RSVP to Ezella Wynn at ewynn@ici.org or 202-218-3560. The call-in number will be 800-857-5047 for those calling from within the U.S. and 1-212-547-0156 for those calling from overseas. The passcode for all call participants will be 59225.

Please feel free to contact the undersigned at lawson@ici.org or 202/326-5832 at your convenience, particularly if you cannot participate in the July 21 call, to discuss FATCA and the ICI’s letter.

 

Keith Lawson
Senior Counsel – Tax Law

endnotes

 [1] See Institute Memorandum No. 25267, dated June 9, 2011.

 [2] See Institute Memorandum No. 25134, dated April 21, 2011.

 [3] See Institute Memorandum No. 24186, dated March 17, 2010.