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OMB Control No: 1506-0009	ICR Reference No: 202403-1506-001
Status: Received in OIRA	Previous ICR Reference No: 202101-1506-001
Agency/Subagency: TREAS/FINCEN	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Reports of Foreign Financial Accounts Regulations and FinCEN Form 114, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR)
Type of Information Collection: Extension without change of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular	Date Submitted to OIRA: 03/29/2024

	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	36 Months From Approved	05/31/2024
Responses	1,503,807	1,273,579
Time Burden (Hours)	1,503,807	1,273,579
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0

Abstract: 31 U.S.C. 5314 authorizes the Secretary to require any “resident or citizen of the United States or a person in, and doing business in, the United States, to . . . keep records and file reports, when the resident, citizen, or person makes a transaction or maintains a relation for any person with a foreign financial agency.” The term “foreign financial agency” encompasses the activities outside the United States of an entity that meets the statutory definition of “financial agency,” notably, “a person acting for a person as a financial institution, bailee, depository trustee, or agent, or acting in a similar way related to money, credit, securities, gold, or a transaction in money, credit, securities or gold, or a service provided with respect to money, securities, futures, precious metals, stone and jewels, or value that substitutes for currency.” The Secretary is also authorized to prescribe exemptions to the reporting requirement and to prescribe other matters the Secretary considers necessary to carry out 31 U.S.C. 5314. The regulations implementing 31 U.S.C. 5314 appear at 31 CFR 1010.350, 1010.360, and 1010.420. 31 CFR 1010.350 generally requires each U.S. person having a financial interest in, or signature or other authority over, a bank, securities, or other financial account in a foreign country to report such relationship to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for each year such relationship exists, and to provide and report such information specified in a reporting form prescribed under 31 U.S.C. 5314. The FinCEN Report 114, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR), is used to file the information required by this section. The FBAR must be filed electronically with FinCEN. 31 CFR 1010.306(c) requires the FBAR to be filed for foreign financial accounts exceeding $10,000 maintained during the previous calendar year. No FBAR is required to be filed if the aggregate account value of foreign financial accounts maintained during the previous calendar year is below $10,000. 31 CFR 1010.420 outlines the recordkeeping requirements associated with foreign financial accounts required to be reported under section 1010.350. Specifically, filers must retain records of such accounts for a period of five years and make the records available for inspection as authorized by law.

Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 31 USC 5314 Name of Law: Money and Finance
US Code: 31 USC 5311-5330 Name of Law: Bank Secrecy Act

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
60-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	88 FR 54397	08/10/2023
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	89 FR 22241	03/29/2024
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? Yes

Number of Information Collection (IC) in this ICR: 1

IC Title	Form No.	Form Name
Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts	FinCEN Report 114	FBAR

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Request	Previously Approved	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate
Annual Number of Responses	1,503,807	1,273,579	230,228
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	1,503,807	1,273,579	230,228
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: The total number of FBARs filed in calendar year 2022 was 1,503,807. The adjustment in agency estimates reflects an increase in burden hours from the previously approved figures. The addition represents an increase in the number of FBARs filed in calendar year 2022, as compared to calendar year 2018. There were 1,273,579 FBARs filed in calendar year 2018.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $150,381

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. Yes

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. Yes

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? No

Agency Contact: FinCEN Resource Center 800 767-2825 frc@fincen.gov

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