21 Mar 2025
📜OFAC Extends Recordkeeping to 10 Years for Businesses
Reporting, Procedures and Penalties Regulations
Summary
The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is issuing this final rule to adopt, without change, an interim final rule to amend the Reporting, Procedures and Penalties Regulations (the "Regulations"), extending certain recordkeeping requirements from five to 10 years, consistent with the statute of limitations for violations of certain sanctions administered by OFAC.
Agencies
- Treasury Department
- Foreign Assets Control Office
Business Impact
$$$ - High
The regulation extends recordkeeping requirements for businesses from five to ten years, requiring heightened compliance efforts regarding sanctions, which can lead to increased operational costs and a need for revised internal policies.