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PAST ISSUES
ISSUE 2025/10
CSA
· Hotline Case Sharing
CPAnywhere
· Competing Successfully with CPAnywhere (continued from last issue)
AML for CSA
· How can Crypto Coin Issuers Comply with AML Requirements?
General Interest
· Could Banks Become “Obsolete” if Stablecoins Adopt Google’s Autonomous AI Agents as a Clearing House?
ISSUE 2025/08
CSA
· Updated Version 6.5.2
· Hotline Case Sharing
CPAnywhere
· Competing Successfully with CPAnywhere (continued from last issue)
AML for CSA
· Exploring a New Feature Inspired by a Recent AML Compliance Audit
General Interest
· Hong Kong’s Stablecoins: a stealth attack on US dollar dominance?
ISSUE 2025/06
CSA
· Hotline Case Sharing
CPAnywhere
· Competing Successfully with CPAnywhere
AML for CSA
· BVI New Disclosure Requirements: Beneficial Ownership Obligations under AML Regulations
General Interest
· Could the End of Double Taxation and FATCA Reporting for Americans Abroad Become a Reality under the Trump Presidency?
ISSUE 2025/04
CSA
· Updated Version 6.5.1
· e-Form Submission Failure: A Common Case
CPAnywhere
· The Transformation of CPAnywhere in Mobile Communication
AML for CSA
· PEP Database on Central, Provincial, and Local Chinese
Officials
· U.S. Law Firm in London was fined 300,000 pounds for
non-compliance to AML
General Interest
· To File or Not to File: Do you still need to file the Beneficial Ownership Information to the IRS?
ISSUE 2025/02
CSA
· Updated Version 6.5
CPAnywhere
· How to Assign Access Rights to Staff in CPAnywhere
AML for CSA
· CR’s Revised Guideline on AML and CTF applicable to TCSP Licensees
General Interest
· Should you still file the Beneficial Ownership under the U.S. Corporate Transparency Act?
ISSUE 2024/12
CSA
· The Mysterious “Remarks” on the AR Form
CPAnywhere
· The “Time Clock” function now supports the newest “XLSX” format
AML for CSA
· Survey on the use of AML/CTF software among CSA users
General Interest
· What to expect with the future of the US tax system?
ISSUE 2024/10
CSA
· Q & A for Users CR’s e Services Related
CPAnywhere
· The “Job Assignment Control Sheet” Revisited
AML for CSA
· Improving the Search Speed on the “PEP Private Database”
· Severe Penalty for not Identifying PEP or not Doing EDD in a Timely Manner
General Interest
· What are the disadvantages of holding a US green card while residing in Hong Kong
ISSUE 2024/08
CSA
· Getting to Know User-defined Fields ("UDF") in CSA
CPAnywhere
· How does CPAnywhere handles Maternity Leave
AML for CSA
· Hong Kong Customs Start Enforcing the AML/CTF Ordinance
General Interest
· Major Restructuring of the US Tax Code under the “Project 2025” if Trump Wins
ISSUE 2024/06
CSA
· Updated Version 6.2
CPAnywhere
· Case Study: Roster and Shift Setting in CPAnywhere
AML for CSA
· Adding the SFC ’s Enforcement List Search Function
General Interest
· USA Green Card: Pros and Cons
ISSUE 2024/04
CSA
· Application to CR for Disclosure of Protected Information of Directors etc. by Specified Persons.
CPAnywhere
· Program Update: The Accrued Vacation after a Staff gets Promoted
AML for CSA
· Request for a Compliance Manual by CR Inspector
· Why do you need your own Compliance Manual?
General Interest
· Get the Fear Out of Sales Tax
ISSUE 2024/02
CSA
· CR Specified Form MPI: Purpose and Usage
CPAnywhere
· Most Popular System Functions Used in CPAnywhere
AML for CSA
· Reports from TCSP Licensees who were under CR's Inspections
General Interest
· Reporting of the Beneficial Ownership Information to the US Treasury
ISSUE 2023/12
CSA
· CR Announced 117 Revised Specified Forms
· Q & A for Users
CPAnywhere
· Extensive Use of Custom Reports by CPAnywhere Users
AML for CSA
· Shall we include the Suspicious Transaction Report (STR) to AML for CSA?
General Interest
· Is the US dollar already at its peak?
ISSUE 2023/10
CSA
· Newly Registered Local companies Growth in 2023
· Q & A for Users: What are the important elements of a Virtual Meeting ?
CPAnywhere
· How does the present “Trust Monies Accounting” function work and its future development
AML for CSA
· How does JPEX use the loophole to operate in Hong Kong with impunity?
· Testing the AML for CSA’s Sanction Screening Capability
· Testing the AML for CSA’s Fugitives Screening
Capability
General Interest
· The IRS has just announced more scrutiny on FBAR violations
ISSUE 2023/08
CSA
· Q & A for Users: How to record share certificates in CSA?
CPAnywhere
· Review the “Leave” Function on CPAnywhere’s mobile app and Ask for Your Suggestions
AML for CSA
· Updated Version 1.3.0: Featuring the Automated Risk Assessment Report Function
General Interest
· Risk to US Taxpayers in any Involvement in Virtual Currency Transactions
ISSUE 2023/06
CSA
· Updated Version 5.1.0
CPAnywhere
· Opinion: “The Future of Cloud Computing” in 2009 Revisited
AML for CSA
· A New Guideline on Compliance of Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Requirements for Trust or Company Service Providers
· System Enhancement: Automated Risk Assessment Report
General Interest
· How to avoid heavy US tax burden before immigrating to the United States
ISSUE 2023/04
CSA
· Updated Version 5.0.2
· The issue of identity information of an individual director on CR forms
· Should you file ND2B with NR1 when RO is changed?
CPAnywhere
· When an Employee Got Fired!
AML for CSA
· FATF’s suggested actions to support the use of technology in AML/CFT
· Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Ordinance 2022 comes into effect on 1 April 2023
General Interest
· How to avoid being targeted by Canada Revenue Agency for world-wide income?
ISSUE 2023/02
CSA
· For an identification number as protected information, how to determine what to show (or what to hide)?
· What CR would do to those “old forms” filed before 24 October 2022 which still contained protected information?
CPAnywhere
· What to do in the system when there is a change of supervisor
· Samples of Custom Reports created by CPAnywhere users
AML for CSA
· Updated Version 1.2.1
· How to speed up the sanction search for the whole database of clients and entities?
ISSUE 2022/12
CSA
· How to rectify a typographical or clerical error contained in a document already registered with the Companies Registry: Form AD
· CR temporarily suspended the support for forms submission through TPSI and “CR eFiling” mobile app
CPAnywhere
· Enhancement to the Invoice Settlement Maintenance function
· Payment Receipt shows the foreign currency
AML for CSA
· Questions asked by CR Inspector on AML for CSA (part II): How does the system work?
· Hong Kong’s implementation of AML/CTF measures: A “report card” based on FATA’s assessment
ISSUE 2022/10
CSA
· The implementation of Phase 2 of the New Inspection Regime
· Director’s Protected Information: Frequently Asked Questions
CPAnywhere
· The problem with multiple approvals of the same invoice
· More information added to Invoice Registry
AML for CSA
· Questions asked by CR Inspector on AML for CSA (part I)
· Where is the source of our Sanction/Wanted List and PEP data come from?
· How frequently do we update our Sanction/Wanted List data?
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