IEIM400860 - Financial Institutions: Partnerships
Partnerships
All partnerships, including general partnerships, limited partnerships and limited liability partnerships, are treated as entities by all of the agreements for automatic exchange of information. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapprefore, for all purposes of this guidance, a partnership is to be treated as if it were an entity with separate legal personality.
A partnership can be either a Financial Institution or an NFE. To determine the status of the partnership you should consider whether or not it meets any of the definitions of Financial Institution [see IEIM400600]. If it does not it will be an NFE [see IEIM404040].