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The Trump administration made permanent a rule eliminating corporate transparency requirements and ordered existing disclosure records deleted. The move exempts U.S. persons helping foreign entities register to do business.
The Trump administration made permanent a rule that kills the requirement for companies to report who actually owns them—the so-called beneficial ownership registry. The move goes further than just dropping future reporting: the administration ordered existing disclosure records deleted. The exemption also covers U.S. citizens helping foreign entities register to do business in the country, effectively creating a legal gray zone for shell company formation.
This isn't administrative tidying. Beneficial ownership registries are how law enforcement traces money laundering, sanctions evasion, and foreign interference networks. Deleting existing records while exempting foreign-connected registrations looks designed to erase a paper trail. The timing matters too—this happens as the administration faces scrutiny over foreign investment flows and potential sanctions vulnerabilities.
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