Businesses have until the end of the year to file the initial Beneficial Ownership Information report with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network as part of the Corporate Transparency Act.
The act, which started Jan. 1, is designed to combat illegal activity such as money laundering and financing for terrorism.
So far, about one-eighth of businesses have met the requirement, said Jim Daly, a managing director in accounting firm PwC’s financial crimes unit.
“To meet that deadline, it’s going to be an estimate of 450,000 legal entities filing a day until Dec. 31,” Daly said on Monday at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas. “Everyone is putting this to the back end of the year.”
