The Corporate Transparency Act: A dangerous assault on small businesses and liberty According to the book “The Corporate Transparency Act: Government Surveillance and the War on Small Business,” the eponymous law is marketed as a tool to combat money laundering and terrorism financing but is actually a mass surveillance scheme targeting small businesses, nonprofits and civic organizations. But large financial institutions (e.g., JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank), which have documented histories of financial crimes, are exempt. The CTA forces over 32 million small businesses to disclose sensitive personal data (home addresses, Social Security numbers) to FinCEN – an agency with a history…

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