The Nashville-based National Federation of Independent Business has announced support for the U.S. Department of Treasury’s rule protecting approximately 32 million U.S. small businesses from registering their beneficial ownership information with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
According to a release, the final rule also commits FinCEN to quickly destroying the personal beneficial ownership information (BOI) data previously unnecessarily submitted by U.S. small business owners.
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