[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 31, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 31CFR103.32]

[Page 373]
 
                  TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE: TREASURY
 
                       DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 103--FINANCIAL RECORDKEEPING AND REPORTING OF CURRENCY AND FOREIGN 
TRANSACTIONS--Table of Contents
 
              Subpart C--Records Required To Be Maintained
 
Sec. 103.32  Records to be made and retained by persons having financial 
interests in foreign financial accounts.

    Records of accounts required by Sec. 103.24 to be reported to the 
Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall be retained by each person having 
a financial interest in or signature or other authority over any such 
account. Such records shall contain the name in which each such account 
is maintained, the number or other designation of such account, the name 
and address of the foreign bank or other person with whom such account 
is maintained, the type of such account, and the maximum value of each 
such account during the reporting period. Such records shall be retained 
for a period of 5 years and shall be kept at all times available for 
inspection as authorized by law. In the computation of the period of 5 
years, there shall be disregarded any period beginning with a date on 
which the taxpayer is indicted or information instituted on account of 
the filing of a false or fraudulent Federal income tax return or failing 
to file a Federal income tax return, and ending with the date on which 
final disposition is made of the criminal proceeding.

[37 FR 6912, Apr. 5, 1972, as amended at 52 FR 11444, Apr. 8, 1987]