Money Laundering: EU Law

(asked on 17th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what reports he has received on the time taken for financial agents to register Trusts in accordance with the Fourth EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive; if he will instruct HM Revenue and Customs to extend the deadlines for completing submissions and registrations; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Mel Stride Portrait
Mel Stride
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
This question was answered on 22nd January 2018

Responses to the consultation on transposing EU Fourth EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive into UK law generally supported the Government’s proposed approach to the new registration system.

Since its implementation, HMRC have supported users of the Trust Registration Service (TRS) through newsletters, webinars, guidance, a dedicated helpline and meetings with professional and tax representative bodies. HMRC have enabled registration where agents do not have all the data required by law but have made all reasonable efforts to find it, and have also extended the registration deadlines from 5 October 2017 and 31 January 2018 to 5 January 2018 and 5 March 2018, respectively.

The TRS will allow HMRC to collect, hold, retrieve and share information with Law Enforcement Authorities to help identify and disrupt suspicious activity involving the misuse of trusts for money laundering or terrorist financing.

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