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Bowditch & Dewey

Corporate Transparency Act Filings Remain Voluntary

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This Client Alert is an update to our last alert published on January 23, 2025. On January 23, 2025, the Supreme Court stayed the nationwide injunction issued by the Fifth Circuit, thus purportedly allowing FinCEN to...more

Smith Anderson

Nationwide Injunctions STAYED - Corporate Transparency Act Reporting Requirements Revived

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Since our December 31, 2024, client alert, there has been a flurry of activity involving all three branches of the federal government regarding the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”)....more

Bricker Graydon LLP

The CTA is Back in Play, with a Slight Extension

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CTA Update – On Tuesday, February 18, 2025, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas stayed its order from January 7, 2025, which provided a nationwide injunction on the CTA’s enforcement....more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

FinCEN Confirms New CTA Filing Deadline - But Congress Looks to Push Deadlines For Some Reporting Entities to 2026

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On February 18, 2025, in a widely expected decision, the Eastern District of Texas, in the case of Smith v. United States Dep't of the Treasury, 2025 WL 41924 (E.D. Tex.), and following the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Corporate Transparency Act Reporting Requirements Are Back: New March 21 Deadline

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In the latest twist involving the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), the only nationwide injunction still in effect that barred enforcement of the CTA’s filing deadlines (Smith vs. U.S. Department of the Treasury) was stayed...more

BakerHostetler

CTA Back in Effect; New Reporting Deadline of March 21

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On Feb. 17, the Texas federal district court in Smith v. U.S. Department of the Treasury granted the government’s motion for an immediate stay pending appeal of the nationwide order staying the effective date of the final...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

The Corporate Transparency Act is Back (For Now): Texas Court Lifts Final Nationwide Injunction Against the CTA

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The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and its beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements are back in effect. On Monday, February 18, 2025, a federal district court in Texas granted a stay of the nationwide...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Corporate Transparency Act: Government Appeals Smith Case, Seeks Reporting Rule Reinstatement

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Here are the latest developments in the ongoing Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) saga...more

BCLP

FinCEN Provides Guidance to Reporting Companies in Wake of Second Appeal to Fifth Circuit

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As previously reported, the Supreme Court has already considered on an emergency basis whether to stay Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) enforcement deadlines. In that case, McHenry v. Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., No. 24A653,...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

DOJ Seeks to Reinstate Corporate Transparency Act

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On February 5, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a notice of appeal and motion for stay of the injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) issued by the Eastern District of Texas in Smith...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

It Lives: Trump Administration Defends Corporate Transparency Act; May Modify its Application

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On February 5, 2025, the Trump administration added a new chapter to the saga that has been implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), filing a notice of appeal and motion for stay against an Eastern District of...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Corporate Transparency Act Beneficial Reporting Still on Hold Nationwide – Stay Tuned

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On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated one nationwide stay (Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. McHenry – formerly, Texas Top Cop Shop v. Garland) which blocked the U.S. government from enforcing the Corporate...more

IR Global

Beneficial Ownership Reporting – To File or Not to File?

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Considering conflicting rulings, businesses remain understandably confused about whether to file their mandated Beneficial Ownership Reports with FinCen. As of this writing, the answer remains that businesses may file but are...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

FinCEN Issues Further Guidance on Pausing CTA Compliance in Response to Supreme Court Ruling

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January 24, 2025 Update: On January 24, FinCEN published updated reporting guidance in which it announced that reporting companies are not currently required to file beneficial ownership information with FinCEN despite the...more

Winstead PC

Corporate Transparency Act Update

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On January 23, 2025, the United States Supreme Court granted the government’s application for stay of a recent district court’s preliminary injunction of the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)....more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

CTA Remains on Hold Despite Supreme Court Ruling

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The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) remains on hold despite a recent Supreme Court ruling. On January 23, 2025, the Supreme Court granted the government’s motion to stay a nationwide injunction that had been issued by a...more

King & Spalding

CTA Compliance Stay Continues Despite Supreme Court Lifting Nationwide Injunction; FinCEN Recognizes Separate District Court Stay...

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On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the government’s motion to lift the nationwide injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) in Texas Top Cop Shop v. McHenry (formerly, Texas Top...more

Snell & Wilmer

Another Twist for the Ongoing Corporate Transparency Act Saga: The Supreme Court Provides a Lifeline

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On Thursday, January 23, 2025, in an 8-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed one of the two nationwide injunctions of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) pending the conclusion of the Fifth Circuit appeal and any...more

Dickinson Wright

Supreme Court Stays Fifth Circuit CTA Injunction, But Clarity Remains Elusive

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On Jan. 23, 2025, the United States Supreme Court reinstated a stay on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ Dec. 26, 2024, decision, which had upheld a lower court’s nationwide injunction blocking enforcement of the Corporate...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Supreme Court Stays CTA Injunction in Texas Top Cop Shop Case, but CTA Reporting Still on Hold

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In the Texas Top Cop Shop case, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on Dec. 3, 2024, issued an injunction that deferred all reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). (See Holland...more

Williams Mullen

Corporate Transparency Act Update: Still Enjoined, Filings Still Voluntary, No Penalties for Not Filing

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Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) news in January and December 2024 has been plentiful. Here is the running recap of significant December and January events...more

Morgan Lewis

CTA Still On Hold: US Supreme Court Lifts One Injunction, But Another Remains

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The US Supreme Court has granted FinCEN’s request for a stay of the recent nationwide injunction of enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). A separate nationwide injunction, however, remains in place, meaning...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

The CTA is Back in Play, with a Slight Extension - Update

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On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted the nationwide injunction that had previously blocked the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) (Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. McHenry). The Supreme Court’s...more

Warner Norcross + Judd

CTA Filing Obligations Remain Voluntary Amid Court Challenges

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After a few days on a legal roller coaster, enforcement and reporting obligations under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) remain on hold as lawsuits challenging the CTA’s constitutionality continue. On Jan. 23, 2025, the...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

The Ping-Pong Continues – But CTA Is Still on Hold

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On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the federal government’s motion to stay the nationwide injunction blocking the Corporate Transparency Act’s (CTA) enforcement, issued by the federal district court of the...more

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