Enlarge image | IRS Report of Cash Payments Over $10,000 FinCEN Form Form 8300 Received in a Trade or Business 8300 (Rev. August 2014) ▶ See instructions for definition of cash. (Rev. August 2014) OMB No. 1506-0018 ▶ Use this form for transactions occurring after August 29, 2014. Do not use prior versions after this date. Department of the Treasury Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service For Privacy Act and Paperwork Reduction Act Notice, see the last page. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network 1 Check appropriate box(es) if: a Amends prior report; b Suspicious transaction. Part I Identity of Individual From Whom the Cash Was Received 2 If more than one individual is involved, check here and see instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ▶ 3 Last name 4 First name 5 M.I. 6 Taxpayer identification number 7 Address (number, street, and apt. or suite no.) 8 Date of birth . . . ▶ M M D D Y Y Y Y (see instructions) 9 City 10 State 11 ZIP code 12 Country (if not U.S.) 13 Occupation, profession, or business 14 Identifying a Describe ID ▶ b Issued by ▶ document (ID) c Number ▶ Part II Person on Whose Behalf This Transaction Was Conducted 15 If this transaction was conducted on behalf of more than one person, check here and see instructions . . . . . . . . . . . ▶ 16 Individual’s last name or organization’s name 17 First name 18 M.I. 19 Taxpayer identification number 20 Doing business as (DBA) name (see instructions) Employer identification number 21 Address (number, street, and apt. or suite no.) 22 Occupation, profession, or business 23 City 24 State 25 ZIP code 26 Country (if not U.S.) 27 Alien a Describe ID ▶ b Issued by ▶ identification (ID) c Number ▶ Part III Description of Transaction and Method of Payment 28 Date cash received 29 Total cash received 30 31 Total price if different from M M D D Y Y Y Y If cash was received in item 29 more than one payment, $ .00 check here . . . ▶ $ .00 32 Amount of cash received (in U.S. dollar equivalent) (must equal item 29) (see instructions): a U.S. currency $ .00 (Amount in $100 bills or higher $ .00 ) b Foreign currency $ .00 (Country ▶ ) c Cashier’s check(s) $ .00 Issuer’s name(s) and serial number(s) of the monetary instrument(s) ▶ d Money order(s) $ .00 e Bank draft(s) $ .00 f Traveler’s check(s) $ .00 } 33 Type of transaction 34 Specific description of property or service shown in a Personal property purchased f Debt obligations paid 33. Give serial or registration number, address, docket b Real property purchased g Exchange of cash number, etc. ▶ c Personal services provided h Escrow or trust funds d Business services provided i Bail received by court clerks e Intangible property purchased j Other (specify in item 34) ▶ Part IV Business That Received Cash 35 Name of business that received cash 36 Employer identification number 37 Address (number, street, and apt. or suite no.) Social security number 38 City 39 State 40 ZIP code 41 Nature of your business 42 Under penalties of perjury, I declare that to the best of my knowledge the information I have furnished above is true, correct, and complete. ▲ ▲ Signature Title Authorized official 43 Date of M M D D Y Y Y Y 44 Type or print name of contact person 45 Contact telephone number signature IRS Form 8300 (Rev. 8-2014) Cat. No. 62133S FinCEN Form 8300 (Rev. 8-2014) |
Enlarge image | IRS Form 8300 (Rev. 8-2014) Page 2 FinCEN Form 8300 (Rev. 8-2014) Multiple Parties (Complete applicable parts below if box 2 or 15 on page 1 is checked.) Part I Continued—Complete if box 2 on page 1 is checked 3 Last name 4 First name 5 M.I. 6 Taxpayer identification number 7 Address (number, street, and apt. or suite no.) 8 Date of birth . . . ▶ M M D D Y Y Y Y (see instructions) 9 City 10 State 11 ZIP code 12 Country (if not U.S.) 13 Occupation, profession, or business 14 Identifying a Describe ID ▶ b Issued by ▶ document (ID) c Number ▶ 3 Last name 4 First name 5 M.I. 6 Taxpayer identification number 7 Address (number, street, and apt. or suite no.) 8 Date of birth . . . ▶ M M D D Y Y Y Y (see instructions) 9 City 10 State 11 ZIP code 12 Country (if not U.S.) 13 Occupation, profession, or business 14 Identifying a Describe ID ▶ b Issued by ▶ document (ID) c Number ▶ Part II Continued—Complete if box 15 on page 1 is checked 16 Individual’s last name or organization’s name 17 First name 18 M.I. 19 Taxpayer identification number 20 Doing business as (DBA) name (see instructions) Employer identification number 21 Address (number, street, and apt. or suite no.) 22 Occupation, profession, or business 23 City 24 State 25 ZIP code 26 Country (if not U.S.) 27 Alien a Describe ID ▶ b Issued by ▶ identification (ID) c Number ▶ 16 Individual’s last name or organization’s name 17 First name 18 M.I. 19 Taxpayer identification number 20 Doing business as (DBA) name (see instructions) Employer identification number 21 Address (number, street, and apt. or suite no.) 22 Occupation, profession, or business 23 City 24 State 25 ZIP code 26 Country (if not U.S.) 27 Alien a Describe ID ▶ b Issued by ▶ identification (ID) c Number ▶ Comments – Please use the lines provided below to comment on or clarify any information you entered on any line in Parts I, II, III, and IV IRS Form 8300 (Rev. 8-2014) FinCEN Form 8300 (Rev. 8-2014) |
Enlarge image | IRS Form 8300 (Rev. 8-2014) Page 3 FinCEN Form 8300 (Rev. 8-2014) Section references are to the Internal aggregate Form 8300 amounts listed cash is received. The statement must Revenue Code unless otherwise noted. relating to that payer. Payments made to show the name, telephone number, and satisfy separate bail requirements are address of the information contact for Future Developments not required to be aggregated. See the business, the aggregate amount of For the latest information about Treasury Regulations section 1.6050I-2. reportable cash received, and that the developments related to Form 8300 and Casinos must file Form 8300 for information was furnished to the IRS. its instructions, such as legislation nongaming activities (restaurants, shops, Keep a copy of the statement for your enacted after they were published, go to etc.). records. www.irs.gov/form8300. Voluntary use of Form 8300. Form Multiple payments. If you receive more 8300 may be filed voluntarily for any than one cash payment for a single Important Reminders suspicious transaction (see Definitions, transaction or for related transactions, • Section 6050I (26 United States Code later) for use by FinCEN and the IRS, you must report the multiple payments (U.S.C.) 6050I) and 31 U.S.C. 5331 even if the total amount does not any time you receive a total amount that require that certain information be exceed $10,000. exceeds $10,000 within any 12-month period. Submit the report within 15 days reported to the IRS and the Financial Exceptions. Cash is not required to be of the date you receive the payment that Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). reported if it is received: causes the total amount to exceed This information must be reported on IRS/FinCEN Form 8300. • By a financial institution required to file $10,000. If more than one report is FinCEN Report 112, BSA Currency required within 15 days, you may file a • Item 33, box i, is to be checked only by Transaction Report (BCTR); combined report. File the combined clerks of the court; box d is to be report no later than the date the earliest checked by bail bondsmen. See Item 33 • By a casino required to file (or exempt under Part III, later. from filing) FinCEN Report 112, if the report, if filed separately, would have to cash is received as part of its gaming be filed. • The meaning of the word “currency” business; Taxpayer identification number (TIN). for purposes of 31 U.S.C. 5331 is the You must furnish the correct TIN of the same as for the word “cash” (See Cash • By an agent who receives the cash under Definitions, later). from a principal, if the agent uses all of person or persons from whom you the cash within 15 days in a second receive the cash and, if applicable, the transaction that is reportable on Form person or persons on whose behalf the General Instructions 8300 or on FinCEN Report 112, and transaction is being conducted. You may Who must file. Each person engaged in discloses all the information necessary be subject to penalties for an incorrect a trade or business who, in the course to complete Part II of Form 8300 or or missing TIN. of that trade or business, receives more FinCEN Report 112 to the recipient of The TIN for an individual (including a than $10,000 in cash in one transaction the cash in the second transaction; sole proprietorship) is the individual’s or in two or more related transactions, • In a transaction occurring entirely social security number (SSN). For certain must file Form 8300. Any transactions outside the United States. See resident aliens who are not eligible to get conducted between a payer (or its Publication 1544, Reporting Cash an SSN and nonresident aliens who are agent) and the recipient in a 24-hour Payments of Over $10,000 (Received in required to file tax returns, it is an IRS period are related transactions. a Trade or Business), regarding Individual Taxpayer Identification Transactions are considered related transactions occurring in Puerto Rico Number (ITIN). For other persons, even if they occur over a period of more and territories and possessions of the including corporations, partnerships, and than 24 hours if the recipient knows, or United States; or estates, it is the employer identification has reason to know, that each number (EIN). transaction is one of a series of • In a transaction that is not in the connected transactions. course of a person’s trade or business. If you have requested but are not able to get a TIN for one or more of the Keep a copy of each Form 8300 for 5 When to file. File Form 8300 by the parties to a transaction within 15 days years from the date you file it. 15th day after the date the cash was following the transaction, file the report received. If that date falls on a Saturday, and use the comments section on page Clerks of federal or state courts must Sunday, or legal holiday, file the form on 2 of the form to explain why the TIN is file Form 8300 if more than $10,000 in the next business day. not included. cash is received as bail for an individual(s) charged with certain criminal Where to file. File the form with the Exception. You are not required to offenses. For these purposes, a clerk Internal Revenue Service, Detroit provide the TIN of a person who is a includes the clerk’s office or any other Computing Center, P.O. Box 32621, nonresident alien individual or a foreign office, department, division, branch, or Detroit, Ml 48232. organization if that person or foreign unit of the court that is authorized to You may be able to organization: receive bail. If a person receives bail on electronically file Form 8300 • Does not have income effectively behalf of a clerk, the clerk is treated as TIP using FinCEN's Bank Secrecy connected with the conduct of a U.S. receiving the bail. See Item 33 under Act (BSA) Electronic Filing trade or business; Part III, later. (E-Filing) System as an alternative If multiple payments are made in cash method to filing a paper Form 8300. To • Does not have an office or place of to satisfy bail and the initial payment get more information, visit the BSA business, or a fiscal or paying agent in does not exceed $10,000, the initial E-Filing System, at the U.S.; payment and subsequent payments http://bsaefiling.fincen.treas.gov/ • Does not furnish a withholding must be aggregated and the information main.html. certificate described in §1.1441-1(e)(2) or return must be filed by the 15th day after Statement to be provided. You must (3) or §1.1441-5(c)(2)(iv) or (3)(iii) to the receipt of the payment that causes the give a written or electronic statement to extent required under §1.1441-1(e)(4)(vii); aggregate amount to exceed $10,000 in each person named on a required Form or cash. In such cases, the reporting 8300 on or before January 31 of the year • Does not have to furnish a TIN on any requirement can be satisfied by sending following the calendar year in which the return, statement, or other document as a single written statement with the required by the income tax regulations under section 897 or 1445. |
Enlarge image | IRS Form 8300 (Rev. 8-2014) Page 4 FinCEN Form 8300 (Rev. 8-2014) Penalties. You may be subject to Travel or entertainment activity. An information for the other individual(s) by penalties if you fail to file a correct and item of travel or entertainment that completing Part I on page 2 of the form. complete Form 8300 on time and you pertains to a single trip or event if the If more than three individuals are cannot show that the failure was due to combined sales price of the item and all involved, provide the same information in reasonable cause. You may also be other items relating to the same trip or the comments section on page 2 of the subject to penalties if you fail to furnish event that are sold in the same form. timely a correct and complete statement transaction (or related transactions) Item 6. Enter the taxpayer identification to each person named in a required exceeds $10,000. number (TIN) of the individual named. report. A minimum penalty of $25,000 Exceptions. A cashier’s check, money See Taxpayer identification number (TIN), may be imposed if the failure is due to order, bank draft, or traveler’s check is earlier, for more information. an intentional or willful disregard of the not considered received in a designated Item 8. Enter eight numerals for the date cash reporting requirements. reporting transaction if it constitutes the of birth of the individual named. For Penalties may also be imposed for proceeds of a bank loan or if it is example, if the individual’s birth date is causing, or attempting to cause, a trade received as a payment on certain July 6, 1960, enter “07” “06” “1960.” or business to fail to file a required promissory notes, installment sales report; for causing, or attempting to contracts, or down payment plans. See Item 13. Fully describe the nature of the cause, a trade or business to file a Publication 1544 for more information. occupation, profession, or business (for example, “plumber,” “attorney,” or required report containing a material Person. An individual, corporation, “automobile dealer”). Do not use general omission or misstatement of fact; or for partnership, trust, estate, association, or or nondescriptive terms such as structuring, or attempting to structure, company. “businessman” or “self-employed.” transactions to avoid the reporting requirements. These violations may also Recipient. The person receiving the Item 14. You must verify the name and be subject to criminal prosecution which, cash. Each branch or other unit of a address of the named individual(s). upon conviction, may result in person’s trade or business is considered Verification must be made by imprisonment of up to 5 years or fines of a separate recipient unless the branch examination of a document normally up to $250,000 for individuals and receiving the cash (or a central office accepted as a means of identification $500,000 for corporations or both. linking the branches), knows or has when cashing checks (for example, a reason to know the identity of payers driver’s license, passport, alien Definitions making cash payments to other registration card, or other official branches. Cash. The term “cash” means the document). In item 14a, enter the type of following. Transaction. Includes the purchase of document examined. In item 14b, property or services, the payment of identify the issuer of the document. In • U.S. and foreign coin and currency debt, the exchange of cash for a item 14c, enter the document’s number. received in any transaction; or negotiable instrument, and the receipt of For example, if the individual has a Utah • A cashier’s check, money order, bank cash to be held in escrow or trust. A driver’s license, enter “driver’s license” draft, or traveler’s check having a face single transaction may not be broken in item 14a, “Utah” in item 14b, and the amount of $10,000 or less that is into multiple transactions to avoid number appearing on the license in item received in a designated reporting reporting. 14c. transaction (defined below), or that is Suspicious transaction. A suspicious Note. You must complete all three items received in any transaction in which the transaction is a transaction in which it (a, b, and c) in this line to make sure that recipient knows that the instrument is appears that a person is attempting to Form 8300 will be processed correctly. being used in an attempt to avoid the cause Form 8300 not to be filed, or to reporting of the transaction under either file a false or incomplete form. Part II section 6050I or 31 U.S.C. 5331. Item 15. If the transaction is being Note. Cash does not include a check Specific Instructions conducted on behalf of more than one drawn on the payer’s own account, such person (including husband and wife or as a personal check, regardless of the You must complete all parts. However, amount. you may skip Part II if the individual parent and child), check the box and named in Part I is conducting the complete Part II for any one of the Designated reporting transaction. A transaction on his or her behalf only. For persons. Provide the same information retail sale (or the receipt of funds by a voluntary reporting of suspicious for the other person(s) by completing broker or other intermediary in transactions, see Item 1, next. Part II on page 2. If more than three connection with a retail sale) of a persons are involved, provide the same consumer durable, a collectible, or a Item 1. If you are amending a report, information in the comments section on travel or entertainment activity. check box 1a. Complete the form in its page 2 of the form. entirety (Parts I-IV) and include the Retail sale. Any sale (whether or not amended information. Do not attach a Items 16 through 19. If the person on the sale is for resale or for any other copy of the original report. whose behalf the transaction is being purpose) made in the course of a trade conducted is an individual, complete or business if that trade or business To voluntarily report a suspicious items 16, 17, and 18. Enter his or her principally consists of making sales to transaction (see Suspicious transaction TIN in item 19. If the individual is a sole ultimate consumers. above), check box 1b. You may also proprietor and has an employer telephone your local IRS Criminal identification number (EIN), you must Consumer durable. An item of Investigation Division or call the FinCEN enter both the SSN and EIN in item 19. tangible personal property of a type Financial Institution Hotline at If the person is an organization, put its that, under ordinary usage, can 1-866-556-3974. name as shown on required tax filings in reasonably be expected to remain useful item 16 and its EIN in item 19. for at least 1 year, and that has a sales Part I price of more than $10,000. Item 20. If a sole proprietor or Item 2. If two or more individuals organization named in items 16 through Collectible. Any work of art, rug, conducted the transaction you are 18 is doing business under a name other antique, metal, gem, stamp, coin, etc. reporting, check the box and complete than that entered in item 16 (for Part I on page 1 for any one of the example, a “trade” or “doing business individuals. Provide the same as (DBA)” name), enter it here. |
Enlarge image | IRS Form 8300 (Rev. 8-2014) Page 5 FinCEN Form 8300 (Rev. 8-2014) Item 27. If the person is not required to Part IV allows or requires the IRS to disclose or furnish a TIN, complete this item. See give the information requested on this Taxpayer identification number (TIN), Item 36. If you are a sole proprietorship, form to others as described in the earlier. Enter a description of the type of you must enter your SSN. If your Internal Revenue Code. For example, we official document issued to that person business also has an EIN, you must may disclose your tax information to the in item 27a (for example, a “passport”), provide the EIN as well. All other Department of Justice, to enforce the tax the country that issued the document in business entities must enter an EIN. laws, both civil and criminal, and to item 27b, and the document’s number in Item 41. Fully describe the nature of cities, states, the District of Columbia, item 27c. your business, for example, “attorney” or and U.S. commonwealths and Note. You must complete all three items “jewelry dealer.” Do not use general or possessions, to carry out their tax laws. (a, b, and c) in this line to make sure that nondescriptive terms such as “business” We may disclose this information to Form 8300 will be processed correctly. or “store.” other persons as necessary to obtain Item 42. This form must be signed by an information which we cannot get in any Part III individual who has been authorized to other way. We may disclose this Item 28. Enter the date you received the do so for the business that received the information to federal, state, and local cash. If you received the cash in more cash. child support agencies; and to other federal agencies for the purposes of than one payment, enter the date you Comments determining entitlement for benefits or received the payment that caused the the eligibility for and the repayment of combined amount to exceed $10,000. Use this section to comment on or See Multiple payments, earlier, for more clarify anything you may have entered loans. We may also provide the records information. on any line in Parts I, II, III, and IV. For to appropriate state, local, and foreign example, if you checked box b criminal law enforcement and regulatory Item 30. Check this box if the amount (Suspicious transaction) in line 1 above personnel in the performance of their shown in item 29 was received in more Part I, you may want to explain why you official duties. We may also disclose this than one payment (for example, as think that the cash transaction you are information to other countries under a installment payments or payments on reporting on Form 8300 may be tax treaty, or to federal and state related transactions). suspicious. agencies to enforce federal nontax Item 31. Enter the total price of the criminal laws and to combat terrorism. In property, services, amount of cash Privacy Act and Paperwork Reduction addition, FinCEN may provide the exchanged, etc. (for example, the total Act Notice. Except as otherwise noted, information to those officials if they are cost of a vehicle purchased, cost of the information solicited on this form is conducting intelligence or catering service, exchange of currency) if required by the IRS and FinCEN in order counter-intelligence activities to protect different from the amount shown in item to carry out the laws and regulations of against international terrorism. 29. the United States. Trades or businesses You are not required to provide the Item 32. Enter the dollar amount of each and clerks of federal and state criminal information requested on a form that is form of cash received. Show foreign courts are required to provide the subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act currency amounts in U.S. dollar information to the IRS and FinCEN under unless the form displays a valid OMB equivalent at a fair market rate of section 6050I and 31 U.S.C. 5331, control number. Books or records exchange available to the public. The respectively. Section 6109 and 31 U.S.C. relating to a form or its instructions must sum of the amounts must equal item 29. 5331 require that you provide your be retained as long as their contents For cashier’s check, money order, bank identification number. The principal may become material in the draft, or traveler’s check, provide the purpose for collecting the information on administration of any law under 26 name of the issuer and the serial number this form is to maintain reports or U.S.C. or 31 U.S.C. of each instrument. Names of all issuers records which have a high degree of The time needed to complete this and all serial numbers involved must be usefulness in criminal, tax, or regulatory form will vary depending on individual provided. If necessary, provide this investigations or proceedings, or in the circumstances. The estimated average information in the comments section on conduct of intelligence or time is 21 minutes. If you have page 2 of the form. counter-intelligence activities, by comments concerning the accuracy of directing the federal government’s this time estimate or suggestions for Item 33. Check the appropriate box(es) attention to unusual or questionable making this form simpler, we would be that describe the transaction. If the transactions. happy to hear from you. You can send transaction is not specified in boxes a–i, check box j and briefly describe the You are not required to provide us comments from www.irs.gov/ transaction (for example, “car lease,” information as to whether the reported formspubs. Click on More Information “boat lease,” “house lease,” or “aircraft transaction is deemed suspicious. and then click on Give us feedback. Or rental”). If the transaction relates to the Failure to provide all other requested you can send your comments to Internal receipt of bail by a court clerk, check information, or providing fraudulent Revenue Service, Tax Forms and box i, “Bail received by court clerks.” information, may result in criminal Publications Division, 1111 Constitution This box is only for use by court clerks. prosecution and other penalties under Ave. NW, IR-6526, Washington, DC If the transaction relates to cash 26 U.S.C. and 31 U.S.C. 20224. Do not send Form 8300 to this received by a bail bondsman, check box Generally, tax returns and return address. Instead, see Where to file, d, “Business services provided.” information are confidential, as stated in earlier. section 6103. However, section 6103 |