Unregulated Australian Trusts and Foreign Trusts 5 of 6
2.4 Country of tax residency
Is the Trust a tax resident of a country other than Australia?
No u go to section 3 to complete the form
Yes, please provide the Trust’s country of tax residence and tax identification number (TIN) or equivalent below. If the Trust is a tax
resident of more than one other country, please list all relevant countries below.
A TIN is the number assigned by each country for the purposes of administering tax laws. This is the equivalent of a Tax File Number in
Australia or a Employee Identification Number in the US. If a TIN is not provided, please list one of the three reasons specified (A, B or C)
for not providing a TIN.
Please note a US TIN must be provided if the entity is a US Specified Person. This is a mandatory requirement and a TIN exemption
reason will no longer be accepted. The account cannot be opened without a US TIN.
Country 1 Country 2 Country 3
Country
Country Country
TIN (if no TIN, list reason A, B or C) TIN (if no TIN, list reason A, B or C) TIN (if no TIN, list reason A, B or C)
Reason A: The country of tax residency does not issue TINs to tax residents
Reason B: The Trust has not been issued with a TIN
Reason C: The country of tax residency does not require the TIN to be disclosed
Please cross this box if there are more countries, provide details on a separate sheet.
Copies of the required identification must be certified and confirmed
on the document as a true copy of an original document by one of the
following persons:
1. a person who is enrolled on the roll of the Supreme Court of
a State or Territory, or the High Court of Australia, as a legal
practitioner (however described)
2. a judge of a court
3. a magistrate
4. a chief executive officer of a Commonwealth court
5. a registrar or deputy registrar of a court
6. a Justice of the Peace
7. a notary public (for the purposes of the Statutory Declaration
Regulations 1993)
8. a police officer
9. an agent of the Australian Postal Corporation who is in charge of
an office supplying postal services to the public
10. a permanent employee of the Australian Postal Corporation with
two or more years of continuous service who is employed in an
office supplying postal services to the public
11. an Australian consular officer or an Australian diplomatic officer
(within the meaning of the Consular Fees Act 1955)
12. an officer with two or more continuous years of service with one
or more financial institutions (for the purposes of the Statutory
Declaration Regulations 1993)
13. a finance company officer with two or more continuous years of
service with one or more finance companies (for the purposes of
the Statutory Declaration Regulations 1993)
14. an officer with, or authorised representative of, a holder of
an Australian financial services licence, having two or more
continuous years of service with one or more licensees, or
15. a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia,
CPA Australia or the National Institute of Accountants with two or
more years of continuous membership.
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Tax information (continued)
Certification of identification documents