Publication 54 |
2001 Tax Year |
Information Returns & Reports
There are several instances in which you may have to file either an
information return or a report. You may have to file a return or a
report if any of the following apply.
- You are a shareholder of a controlled foreign
corporation.
- You are a shareholder, officer, or director of a foreign
personal holding company.
- You are a shareholder, officer, or director of a U.S. entity
that acquires, disposes of, or is involved in the reorganization of a
foreign corporation.
- You are the responsible party for reporting foreign trust
events.
- You receive large gifts or bequests from foreign
persons.
- You are treated as owning any portion of a foreign trust
under the grantor trust rules.
- You receive distributions from a foreign trust.
- You ship currency to or from the United States.
- You have an interest in a foreign bank or financial
account.
Form 5471.
Form 5471 must generally be filed by certain U.S. shareholders of
controlled foreign corporations and by certain shareholders, officers,
and directors of foreign personal holding companies. Form 5471 must
also be filed by officers, directors, and shareholders of U.S.
entities that acquire, dispose of, or are involved in the
reorganization of a foreign corporation.
If Form 5471 is required, you must file it at the time you file
your income tax return. More information about the filing of Form 5471
can be found in the instructions for this information return.
Form 3520.
You may have to file Form 3520, Annual Return To Report
Transactions With Foreign Trusts and Receipt of Certain Foreign
Gifts, if:
- You are involved in the creation of a foreign trust,
- You are involved in the transfer of money or property to a
foreign trust,
- You are treated as the owner of any part of the assets of a
foreign trust under the grantor trust rules,
- You received a distribution from a foreign trust,
- A related foreign trust held an outstanding obligation
issued by you (or a person related to you),
- You received more than $100,000 from a nonresident alien
individual or a foreign estate (including foreign persons related to
the individual or estate) that you treated as gifts or bequests,
or
- You received more than $11,273 from foreign corporations or
foreign partnerships (including foreign persons related to the
corporations or partnerships) that you treated as gifts.
If Form 3520 is required, you generally must file it at the time
you file your income tax return. Send Form 3520 to the Internal
Revenue Service Center, Philadelphia, PA 19255. More information about
the filing of Form 3520 can be found in the instructions for the form.
Form 4790.
Form 4790, Report of International Transportation of Currency
or Monetary Instruments,
must be filed by each person who
physically transports, mails, ships, or causes to be physically
transported, mailed, or shipped, into or out of the United States,
currency or other monetary instruments totaling more than $10,000 at
one time. The filing requirement also applies to any person who
attempts to transport, mail, or ship the currency or monetary
instruments or attempts to cause them to be transported, mailed, or
shipped. Form 4790 must also be filed by certain recipients of
currency or monetary instruments.
The term "monetary instruments" includes coin and currency of
the United States or of any other country, money orders, traveler's
checks, investment securities in bearer form or otherwise in such form
that title passes upon delivery, and negotiable instruments (except
warehouse receipts or bills of lading) in bearer form or otherwise in
such form that title passes upon delivery. The term includes bank
checks, and money orders that are signed, but on which the name of the
payee has been omitted. The term does not include bank checks, or
money orders made payable to the order of a named person that have not
been endorsed or that bear restrictive endorsements.
A transfer of funds through normal banking procedures (wire
transfer) which does not involve the physical transportation of
currency or bearer monetary instruments is not required to
be reported on Form 4790.
Recipients.
Each person who receives currency or other monetary instruments
from a place outside the United States for which a report has not been
filed by the shipper must file Form 4790.
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It must be filed within 15 days after receipt with the Customs
officer in charge at any port of entry or departure, or by mail with
the:
Commissioner of Customs
Attention: Currency
Transportation Reports
Washington, DC 20229. |
Shippers or mailers.
If the currency or other monetary instrument does not accompany a
person entering or departing the United States, Form 4790 can be filed
by mail with the Commissioner of Customs at the above address. It must
be filed by the date of entry, departure, mailing, or shipping.
Travelers.
Travelers carrying currency or other monetary instruments must file
Customs Form 4790 with the Customs officer in charge at any Customs
port of entry or departure when entering or departing the United
States.
Penalties.
Civil and criminal penalties are provided for failure to file a
report, supply information, and for filing a false or fraudulent
report. Also, the entire amount of the currency or monetary instrument
may be subject to seizure and forfeiture.
More information about the filing of Form 4790 can be found in the
instructions on the back of the form.
Form TD F 90-22.1.
Form TD F 90-22.1 must be filed if you had any financial
interest in, or signature or other authority over, a bank, securities,
or other financial account in a foreign country. You do not have to
file the report if the assets are with a U.S. military banking
facility operated by a U.S. financial institution or if the combined
assets in the account(s) are $10,000 or less during the entire year.
You must file this form by June 30 each year with the Department of
the Treasury at the address shown on the form. Form TD F 90-22.1
is not a tax return, so do not attach it to your Form 1040.
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