Each participant committed to providing the law enforcement authorities of the other participants
with beneficial ownership information for corporate and legal entity is incorporated in their respective jurisdiction.
The use of shell companies by criminals to make all - cash real estate purchases served as the impetus for FinCEN's Geographic Targeting Orders that require certain U.S. title insurance companies to
report beneficial ownership information on legal entities used to purchase certain high - end residential real estate.
There are several bipartisan legislative measures in the House and the Senate that would
require beneficial ownership information to be reported to law enforcement agencies - the information would not be publicly available - and would impose no requirements on real estate professionals.
In the U.S., many states do not require any such listing
of beneficial ownership information — something that can make it difficult for law enforcement, much less the general public, to determine the companies» owners.
Of 300 offshore shell companies identified by Reuters, 22 would typically have been required to have published
the beneficial ownership information by now because their reporting dates fell in the weeks since July 1, when the rules came into force.
Increasingly, Congress and the Administration are focusing on the lack of collection of
beneficial ownership information that has allowed anonymous shell companies to fund corrupt domestic and foreign interests, such as laundering money through real estate purchases.
While British Columbia will now identify trust buyers in a public land registry, the federal government echoed these sentiments in their own budget, with stricter reporting requirements referred to as «
beneficial ownership information».