A representative of the Canadian Bankers Association (CBA) explains succinctly in a November 19 CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) interview how Canada’s banks will respond to US “extraterritorial” demands for FATCA implementation.
On November 25 the CBC/CBC reporter who interviewed the CBA correctly selected the term “deputized by the IRS” to describe the nature of the relationship between these financial institutions and the IRS in a new print version of part of the radio broadcast:
PLEASE LISTEN TO THE RADIO INTERVIEW ON THIS LINK AND FORWARD THIS CBC LINK (but with some text correcting the banker’s statement) TO THOSE WHO MIGHT BENEFIT:
The interview also includes a Brocker/Sandboxer and Allison Christians, Chair of Tax Law at Montreal’s McGill University.
Below is just one brief response to the interview also posted on MapleSandbox:
[SENT BY MAIL; POSTED ONLINE AT ISAACBROCKSOCIETY.CA
AND MAPLESANDBOX.CA]November 21, 2013
Mr. Marion Wrobel
Vice-President, Policy and Operations
Canadian Bankers Association
199 Bay Street, 30th Floor
Toronto, Ontario
M5L 1G2Dear Mr. Wrobel,
[Re: Your November 19 2013 CBC broadcast statements on
Canadian banks and FATCA]I am asking you, as a representative of the Canadian Bankers Association (CBA), to provide more balance in future statements you will make to the public on involvement of Canadian banks in implementing the U.S. imposed FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) law.
In your November 19 statements broadcasted on CBC the audience was left with the impression that Canada’s banks have no choice but to capitulate to U.S. demands to implement FATCA– because the U.S. has a “large economy” and “financial markets are integrated.”
I appreciate that only limited broadcast time was available, and know that you would not mislead; however, Canadians need to know, directly from the CBA, that Canadian banks do in fact have the option of resisting FATCA in order to protect rights of all of us and the sovereignty of our country.