The Currency Transaction Report only covers cash transactions. That means green pieces of paper with pictures of dead presidents on them, not electronic money in a bank account.
Deposit or withdraw cash, buy money orders or cashiers checks with cash, buy a car or house with cash, and if it's over $10,000, it gets reported.
But if you write use a check, credit card, ACH or wire transfer, that's not cash and the bank doesn't have to file a Currency Transaction Report.
That's because these transactions are already in the banking system, so there's already a good audit trail of what money is moving where.
In the US, there is also this thing called Suspicious Activity Reports. They are triggered with any transaction >$3,000 (typically cash-equivalents; but that can be wide reaching). There are some requirements where banks must report but there is also the discretionary part. This is where banks can be held liable for not reporting suspicious activity. Because of that, it is safe to assume most banks report every transaction above $3,000 of any type.
But let's face it, most bank databases probably have something like this going on; GRANT SELECT ON Transactions TO USGOVT
If you've ever bought a car or house, or really made any purchase over $10,000, your bank filed a report to the government with every detail they know about you and every detail about the transaction made. That's not paranoid delusions, that's publicly known law.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_intelligence#Unite...