The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) made several changes suggested by commenters to a new rule allowing limited access to its beneficial ownership information (BOI) registry.

Starting Jan. 1, FinCEN will require corporations, limited liability companies, and similar entities to report certain information about their beneficial owners, defined as “the individual natural persons who ultimately own or control the companies.”

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