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I just heard this last night: buried in the "support for small business" was the repeal (or effectively neuteringO of the Corporate Transparency Act's Financial

by pstuart 22d ago

I just heard this last night: buried in the "support for small business" was the repeal (or effectively neuteringO of the Corporate Transparency Act's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026/09/10/treasury-launder-money https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026/09/10/treasury-launder-mon... That program had a simple ask of every corporation doing business in America: who really owns it? No more hiding of ill gotten gains and laundering through US real estate, etc (hint: anybody come to mind who might do a lot of that)?. They killed it. To "protect small businesses". The Trump Regime is pure corruption. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

edoceo 22d ago
And that reporting was a trivial ask for a small business and still not a burden for large business. Sales Tax handling is more of a burden on the business than this reporting was.
- pstuart 22d ago
  I have zero doubt that it was done intentionally to help their "friends" launder money.
phil21 22d ago
It was a stupid regulation to begin with. Any investigative agency already could trivially get this data through already existing means. All it did was make your 3 member condo association have to pay a lawyer $500/yr in compliance fees for utterly no benefit to anyone other than the compliance folks collecting their rent. Or take on personal criminal liability to file it yourself. Better not forget one random year or it’s a felony! Just like most of the rest of the AML/KYC creep after 9/11 it did absolutely nothing to go after anybody they say it did - it just made things harder on normal everyday people.
- pstuart 22d ago
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- Terr_ 22d ago
  > Any investigative agency already could trivially get this data through already existing means. What do you have in mind? Subpoenas and search-warrants exist but are not trivial.

by pstuart 22d ago

edoceo 22d ago

And that reporting was a trivial ask for a small business and still not a burden for large business. Sales Tax handling is more of a burden on the business than this reporting was.

pstuart 22d ago
I have zero doubt that it was done intentionally to help their "friends" launder money.

phil21 22d ago

It was a stupid regulation to begin with. Any investigative agency already could trivially get this data through already existing means. All it did was make your 3 member condo association have to pay a lawyer $500/yr in compliance fees for utterly no benefit to anyone other than the compliance folks collecting their rent. Or take on personal criminal liability to file it yourself. Better not forget one random year or it’s a felony! Just like most of the rest of the AML/KYC creep after 9/11 it did absolutely nothing to go after anybody they say it did - it just made things harder on normal everyday people.

pstuart 22d ago
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Terr_ 22d ago
> Any investigative agency already could trivially get this data through already existing means. What do you have in mind? Subpoenas and search-warrants exist but are not trivial.