Common Reporting Standard (CRS)
In a response to development in EU and OECD as regards automatic exchange of information in the field of taxation, where EU and OECD prepared a common standard on reporting and due diligence for financial account information, so-called Common Reporting Standard (CRS), Directive No. 2014/107/EU has been implemented into the Czech legislation under Act No. 164/2013 on international cooperation in tax administration.
Under the aforementioned legislation, starting from 2016, Czech financial institutions are obliged to identify and review the tax residency of its clients. Based on this identification, financial institutions will report selected information about its foreign clients who are tax residents in a majority of developed foreign countries (there will be about 100 participating jurisdictions) to the Czech revenue service on an annual basis for the previous calendar year (for the first time in 2017 with respect to information for 2016).
This information consists mainly of the client identification including the tax identification number of the client, information about values in asset accounts at the end of the calendar year and information about any dividends and income from redemptions during that year.
The Czech revenue service will submit the information to tax administrators of other participating jurisdictions. Foreign institutions in participating jurisdictions will proceed in a similar way, i.e. information about Czech/Slovak tax residents and their foreign accounts and income will be submitted by these foreign institutions via a foreign revenue service to the Czech/Slovak revenue service in order to verify the correct taxation of foreign income of Czech/Slovak tax residents.
Amundi Czech Republic Asset Management, a.s. a Amundi Czech Republic, investiční společnost, a.s. meet their CRS identification obligation by collecting data from forms (contracts) where the client confirms the country of his/her tax residence, and related documentation. In case of tax non-residents, the client shall also provide the tax identification number. If the client is a tax resident in several countries, he or she will enter all tax residences and assigned tax identification numbers.
Data collection and the declaration primarily apply to clients entering into a new contract. However, the requirement to obtain the declaration may apply to existing clients as well. The declaration is issued for an unlimited period of time and unless there are any changes of circumstances (e.g. moving to a different country), the client will be only asked to provide it once.
Useful links:
http://www.mfcr.cz/cs/legislativa/mezinarodni-spoluprace-v-oblasti-dani/umluva-o-vzajemne-spravni-spolupraci-mca/mnohostranna-dohoda-mcaa-a-spolecny-stan
https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/tin/tinByCountry.html
http://www.oecd.org/tax/automatic-exchange/crs-implementation-and-assistance