Rayfield says the exemption helps criminals
Dan RayfieldOregon attorney general
Rayfield condemns the broad exemption as an unlawful reversal of Congress's effort to identify shell-company owners and says it impedes state investigators.
“The federal administration has given a green light to all sorts of criminals”
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21 attorneys general sue to restore shell-company ownership reporting; Treasury says the exemption relieves small businesses
On October 27, 2026, 20 states and the District of Columbia sued the Treasury Department in federal court in Oregon over FinCEN rules that exempt all domestic companies from reporting their beneficial owners under the Corporate Transparency Act. The states say the rules effectively repeal the law, weaken law enforcement and tax collection, and order the deletion of data already reported. Treasury says the exemption relieves small businesses of burdens that the reports' usefulness does not justify.
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Rayfield alleges that the rule harms state law enforcement and unlawfully reverses Congress's policy. The release describes the plaintiffs' allegations.
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Rayfield announces the states' challenge to the ownership-reporting rule.
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He accuses the administration of welcoming financial crime and seeks restoration of the reporting database. These are his allegations.
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He directly criticizes the administration's policy and its alleged consequences.
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