What is Foreign Account Compliance Act (FATCA)? & It's Importance

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By now most of you must have submitted your Foreign Account Compliance Act (FATCA) forms.

We would like to inform you that as per the FATCA, Quantum Mutual Fund is required to undertake due diligence process of all the investors including Indian Residents residing in India and Non Resident Indian (NRI) residing in USA or any other country to identify US Reportable Account.

What is FATCA?

A little technical information here - US Reportable Account broadly includes the categories of US Citizens, US Residents, US Persons, NRI individuals based in USA, Indian Residents who are born in the USA or present mailing or residential address in USA (including a US Post Office Box) or having a current USA Telephone Number or standing instructions to transfer funds to an account maintained in USA or current effective power of Attorney or signing authority granted to a person with USA address or care of / hold email address of USA.

To identify and meet the above requirements Country of birth, Country of Citizenship / Nationality and Tax Residency of all the Investor is obtained by way of FATCA Declaration from all the Investors including Indian Residents and Non Resident Indian (NRI) residing in USA or any other country.

In case you still haven't been able to submit your FATCA forms, we request you to do it at the earliest. Below are few online and offline ways investors can use to submit their FATCA declaration.

3 ways to submit your FATCA declaration:

Online portal: We have added a section in the Invest Online portal wherein existing investors can submit their FATCA related details which will get updated against their folio. Or Investors can also update their FATCA details on Karvy's website and this will be updated across all Mutual Fund Investments where Karvy Computershare Pvt Ltd is the service provider.
After filling all details in the FATCA form and upon submission the same will be updated in the selected folio.

Email: Or you can also download the FATCA forms for Individual and HUF and Non-Individuals respectively and send a scan copy of the duly filled and signed form from your registered email id to [email protected].

Offline:

You can send the duly filled and signed FATCA form to:

Investor Services Department
Quantum Asset Management Company Private Limited
Regent Chambers, #505, 5th Floor,
Nariman Point, Mumbai - 400 021.

Alternatively you can submit your duly filled and signed FATCA form to our Collection centers. Please click here for list of Collection Centers.

"Note: According to the IGA (Intergovernmental Agreements ), for all individuals and entities whose accounts are opened from 1^st July, 2014, FATCA details of all holders in the account (irrespective of the mode of holding) need to be obtained by 31^st August, 2016. Else the accounts of the concerned will be closed and their information will be reported as "reportable accounts" to the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or the Indian Tax Authorities for onwards submission to IRS."

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