Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) Registration and FIN request

FINEnrollment process | Internal Revenue Service

Instructions for getting a financial institution number

You need to document the POC and financial institution's information in FATCA Registration System Technical Support to get a FIN. The text box is limited to 1,024 characters. The table below shows the information you'll need.

Category	Description
Email Address:	Enter the POC's email address
Enter the opening statements in the text box	"I am requesting a FIN for FATCA reporting purposes"
Type of entity	U.S. Withholding Agent (USWA) Territory Financial Institution (TFI) Third Party Preparer Commercial Software vendors
Legal name of entity	The legal name is the name of used in legal documents
Entity's tax jurisdiction.	Identify the entity's country of residence as "Other" if you are a Model 1 jurisdiction. Enter the actual country of residence if you are filing from a Model 1 Option 2 jurisdiction.
Identifying information of the POC, authorized to obtain a FIN on behalf of the entity an consent to disclosure of tax matters and the publication of the entity's FIN on the FFI List:	Enter the POC's: Business title Full name Business mailing address Business telephone number Business email address Business fax number (optional)
POC statement	"I, [insert name of POC], am a corporate officer, partner, trustee, or other individual authorized on behalf of [insert legal name of entity] to: (1) obtain a FIN for enrolling in, and submitting files via, IDES and for other FATCA purposes; and (2) execute a consent to disclose the FIN, which is return information, to third parties. [Insert legal name of entity] consents to the publication of its FIN by the IRS on the FFI List."