The International Data Exchange Service (IDES) is a secure managed file transfer service that allows financial institutions and foreign tax authorities to securely send information on financial accounts held by U.S. taxpayers in accordance with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).
IDES only accepts encrypted electronic submissions through a data preparation process. The following sample is one of many possible implementations of the data preparation process created for Unix.
Privacy Notice: This service is controlled and operated by a third party and is not an official government website. By interacting with the IRS through this service, you may be providing non-government third parties access to your personal information. The IRS does not keep or share any personally identifiable information that you provide through this service. The IRS strongly discourages you from providing sensitive personally identifiable information (such as your social security number or tax account information) and will delete any comments containing such information without responding.
For more information review the IDES FAQs and IDES Data Preparation Troubleshooting Tips. Data Preparation questions can also be addressed to lbi.fatca.ides@irs.gov.
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