FORM BE-12 Claim for Not Filing (REV 9/2017)
Authority – This survey is being conducted under the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act (P.L. 94-472, 90 Stat. 2059,
22 U.S.C. 3101-3108, as amended), and the filing of reports is MANDATORY pursuant to Section 5(b)(2) of the Act (22 U.S.C. 3104). The
implementing regulations are contained in Title 15, CFR, Part 801.
Penalties – Whoever fails to report may be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $4,527, and not more than $45,268, and to injunctive
relief commanding such person to comply, or both. The civil penalties are subject to inflationary adjustments. Those adjustments are found
in 15 CFR 6.4. Whoever willfully fails to report shall be fined not more than $10,000 and, if an individual, may be imprisoned for not more
than one year, or both. Any officer, director, employee, or agent of any corporation who knowingly participates in such violation, upon
conviction, may be punished by a like fine, imprisonment, or both (22 U.S.C. 3105).
Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, no person is required to respond to, nor shall any person be subject to a penalty for failure
to comply with, a collection of information subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act, unless that collection of information
displays a currently valid OMB Control Number. The control number for this survey is at the top of page 1.
Respondent Burden – Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to be an average of 20 minutes per response, including the time
for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the
collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including sug-
gestions for reducing this burden, to: Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis (BE-1), U.S. Department of Commerce, 4600 Silver Hill Road,
Washington, DC 20233; and to the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project 0608-0042, Washington, DC 20503.
Confidentiality – The Act provides that your report to this Bureau is CONFIDENTIAL and may be used only for analytical or statistical
purposes. Without your prior written permission, the information filed in your report CANNOT be presented in a manner that allows it to be
individually identified. Your report CANNOT be used for purposes of taxation, investigation, or regulation. Copies retained in your files are
immune from legal process. Per the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, your data are protected from cybersecurity risks through
security monitoring of the BEA information systems.
Definitions of Key Terms
Affiliate means a business enterprise located in one country that is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by a person or entity of another
country to the extent of 10 percent or more of its voting stock for an incorporated business or an equivalent interest for an unincorporated
business, including a branch.
Direct investment means the ownership or control, directly or indirectly, by one person or entity of 10 percent or more of the voting securities
of an incorporated business enterprise or an equivalent interest in an unincorporated business enterprise.
Private fund refers to the same class of financial entities defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission as private funds on Form PF:
“any issuer that would be an investment company as defined in section 3 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 but for section 3(c)(1) or
3(c)(7) of ...[that] Act."
U.S. affiliate means an affiliate located in the United States in which a foreign person or entity has a direct investment.
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ILLUSTRATION OF FOREIGN PARENT AND ULTIMATE BENEFICIAL OWNER (UBO)
Foreign
United States
Foreign Company X
(UBO)
>50 Percent
Foreign Company Y
(Foreign Parent)
10 to 100 Percent
U.S. affiliate A
Foreign Company Y is the foreign
parent but it is not the UBO
because it is more than 50 percent
owned or controlled by Foreign
Company X. Foreign Company
X is the UBO.
Foreign Company Y directly owns
10 percent or more of the voting rights
of U.S. affiliate A.
U.S. affiliate B is indirectly owned
by Foreign Company Y through
U.S. affiliate A.
NOTE: In the illustration above, if Foreign Company Y does not have at least a 10 percent indirect voting interest in U.S.
affiliate B, then U.S. affiliate B is exempt from filing Form BE-12. In addition, if U.S. affiliate A owns more than 50 percent
of U.S. affiliate B, then the data for U.S. affiliate B should be consolidated on the BE-12 report filed for U.S. affiliate A.
U.S. affiliate B