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Is it okay to share the physical currency between travellers in a group?
A party of travellers, such as a family, might choose to break up a reportable amount of currency among themselves, so that each traveller is carrying less than $10,000.
If this involves, for example, a young child ‘carrying’ $9,950 across the border, it is arguable that the main purpose of dividing the cash among the party is to avoid the reporting requirement.
Sharing the money to avoid reporting is called ‘structuring’. It is against the law.
It is an offence (under section 143 of the AML/CTF Act) for a person to conduct, or cause another person to conduct, multiple non-reportable cross-border currency movements in a way which can only be reasonably explained as intentionally avoiding cross-border movement reporting requirements.
Penalties for structuring include imprisonment and/or a fine imposed by the court. Civil penalties provide for an infringement notice requiring the person to pay a fine.
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