Finance committee  . The acronym was FATCA. It's sort of trying to characterize fat cats, but it gets a little short there. What does that acronym stand for again?

Finance committee  . Is that why the Congress has taken the initiative under FATCA, to try to close that door?

Finance committee  Thank you very much. Again, the information continues to be very valuable. I think very often we try to do too much. Focusing specifically on tax havens would probably be the way to go. So as we talk about different ways of just how things can be successful, clearly FATCA

Finance committee  Okay, thank you. Mr. Wrobel, welcome back to the committee, by the way. You've spent quite a bit of time with us over the years. You have expressed concern over FATCA, particularly over document retention requirements and the complexity of the act. But you've also spoken

Finance committee  So is FATCA the best game in town in terms of.... Not to make perfection the enemy of the good, but is that what we ought to be focused on? Is that the best way?

Finance committee   a leadership role in building global governance, with the operative vehicle being the G-20, to create a more effective vehicle than FATCA?

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA): (a) what steps has Canada undertaken to complete an Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) with the United States; (b) with what type of legal instrument will the government enact a FATCA

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the United States (U.S.) Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA): (a) when was the government first made aware of this legislation and how; (b) what steps has Canada taken since the legislation's introduction in the U.S., broken down by year; (c) during

Finance committee  What I'm getting to is whether that would involve people whose accounts have to be given to the Americans because of FATCA. Would such payments be included in this shared information?

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1   unreasonable and harmful and regressive measures that we cannot support. The bill also includes new rules around FATCA, the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. Under the bill, Canadians effectively are going to be doing the dirty work and becoming tax collectors for the IRS. Canada

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1   for the Conservatives but our citizens as well. There is some expertise at the finance committee studying FATCA, but there is also a need to work with other committees. Parliament could be mobilized and engaged more thoroughly if we did not have these kinds of disparate measures lumped together

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1   government is fighting to undermine through its lawyer in the Equitas lawsuit. I would like to talk about other elements, FATCA. Vancouver Quadra residents are very concerned about the impact of this—

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, the hon. member is quite right. The bill's response to FATCA raises obvious concerns about privacy and sovereignty. There was not the kind of consultations that could have avoided those concerns. This is an element in Bill C-31 that attempts to shield Canadian

Foreign Affairs committee   to call FATCA, is in the budget implementation bill, Bill C-31, at this point. I would like to ask a question. Of course, it deals with the fact that we are going to be helping the United States, specifically the Internal Revenue Service,with information so that they can collect

Points of Order   information exchange agreement implementation act, legislation implementing Canadian legislation under U.S. legislation known as FATCA. I am not rising to debate the merits of FATCA, as that would not be a proper use of a point of order. Instead, I rise to seek your ruling as to whether