BEA Survey Questions

Management services; consulting services; public relations services; and amounts received by a parent company from its affiliates for general overhead and stewardship. Excludes consulting engineering services related to actual or proposed construction projects (report under transaction number 16); computer consulting (report under transaction number 12); and public relations services that are an integral part of an advertising campaign (report under transaction code 10).

Yes. Your transaction is with one of your foreign affiliates and is considered a transaction with a foreign person and therefore should be reported on the BE-125 under the column marked Foreign Affiliates.

Yes. Your transaction is with one of your foreign affiliates and is considered a transaction with a foreign person and therefore should be reported on the BE-120 under the column marked Foreign Affiliates.

The user password is created by you when you create your username and is required to access the eFile system. The eFile password is associated with an eFile ID and is required for each survey that you want to link to your user account.

No. The user password you created with your username is required to access the eFile system. An eFile password is associated with an eFile ID and is used to link each survey that you want to be able to access through your user account.

If you have eFiled a survey with BEA before, then you will have already been assigned an eFile ID for that survey and you’ll find it on the survey-related correspondence you received from BEA. If you do not know the eFile ID, you can request that a survey be linked after logging in to your user account. You will need to 1) create a new user account at https://www.bea.gov/efile, and 2) request that a survey be linked to your user account by providing all the required information.

The answer depends on whether the 10 percent threshold, by one foreign entity or associated group, has been crossed. If foreign company X and foreign company Y are part of the same associated group, as defined on the BE-13, then yes, this acquisition should be reported on one of the BE-13 forms. However, if the two foreign companies are not associated, then the basic requirement is not met.

For the BE-13, "entity" is synonymous with “person,” as that term is used in the broad legal sense.

Both terms are defined as: any individual, branch, partnership, associated group, association, estate, trust, corporation, or other organization (whether or not organized under the laws of any State), and any government (including a foreign government, the United States Government, a state or local government, and any agency, corporation, financial institution, or other entity or instrumentality thereof, including a government-sponsored agency).