From my understanding, the US Treasury's Foreign Bank Account Report (FBAR) is supposed to be filed if a US person - natural or artificial - holds over $10,000 in a foreign bank account at any point of the year.
So, intentionally or not intentionally, a citizen wires $9000 to a foreign bank account, and buys things from that account in that foreign jurisdiction, wires another $9000 and buys more things in that foreign jurisdiction, although $18,000 of value is still stored, there is no trigger of the reporting requirement. Is this an unintended loophole or does this just not trigger reporting?
The reason I ask is because for another report, the CTR, currency transaction report, which is distinctly about cash deposites and withdrawals from the financial system (not electronic wires moving value already in the financial system), there is a law specifically about structuring
smaller financial transactions to get around the reporting requirement, which carries criminal sanctions.