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Information about how the CRS may affect Global Banking and Markets clients.
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Information about how the CRS may affect Private Banking clients.
The Common Reporting Standard (CRS) is a new information-gathering and reporting requirement for financial institutions in participating countries, to help fight against tax evasion and protect the integrity of tax systems.
Under the CRS, tax authorities require financial institutions such as HSBC to collect and report certain information relating to their customers’ tax statuses.
If you open a new bank account, invest in new financial products or change your circumstances in some way, we will ask you to certify a number of details about yourself. This process is called “self-certification” and we are required to collect this information under the CRS.
In line with the CRS requirements, we will ask you for your:
*this does not apply in all participating countries and is subject to local law requirements
This will depend on where you live and your circumstances. Please contact a professional tax advisor or check the OECD website for more information on how to determine your tax residency, as HSBC cannot give tax advice.
Under the CRS, we are legally required to establish the tax residency status of all our customers, even if you are tax resident in the same country as where you hold your account. However, typically your details will not be reportable to tax authorities for CRS purposes.
HSBC is required to report your tax details under the legal requirements introduced by countries participating in the CRS.
Yes. We will only disclose your information to the relevant tax authorities if we are legally required to do so.
We are required by law to verify the details you have provided as part of your self-certification. We might ask you for a copy of your passport to verify your identity or for some other evidence of your tax residency declared in your self-certification.
The information provided in the self-certification form, and details about the accounts and products you have with us, including:
For a full list of countries participating in the CRS, alongside the dates that they will start exchanging information, please see the OECD CRS portal.
For further information on your tax residency, please refer to the rules governing tax residence that have been published by each national tax authority. You can also find out more at the OECD Automatic Exchange of Information portal
Page last updated October 2018
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