Posted By: jsim913
Aggregate Related Businesses for CTR - 07/17/19 06:23 PM
We have a handful of Limited Partnerships (each with their own EIN) which are held under an LLC. The LPs collect income from servicing rental properties and mortgages in several different cities (seems to be one LP per city). The LPs do not comingle funds, but they do each transfer quarterly "management fees" to the LLC which pays out operating expenses and payroll. There are a handful of employees that are paid by the LLC which are used between all entities - they do bookkeeping and bring in deposits. No individual LP or conductor exceeds 10k.
Would the fact that there are only a few employees working for multiple entities be enough to aggregate transactions for CTR purposes?
The guidance from FinCEN states examples including "the businesses are staffed by the same employees and are located at the same address, the bank accounts of one business are repeatedly used to pay the expenses of another business, or the business bank accounts are repeatedly used to pay the personal expenses of the owner". These are small operations so we don't believe they have an "office" per se. Other than the distributions, they're not sharing expenses directly. They're just using the same employees, paid by the LLC, to service all of the accounts.
Would the fact that there are only a few employees working for multiple entities be enough to aggregate transactions for CTR purposes?
The guidance from FinCEN states examples including "the businesses are staffed by the same employees and are located at the same address, the bank accounts of one business are repeatedly used to pay the expenses of another business, or the business bank accounts are repeatedly used to pay the personal expenses of the owner". These are small operations so we don't believe they have an "office" per se. Other than the distributions, they're not sharing expenses directly. They're just using the same employees, paid by the LLC, to service all of the accounts.