HM Revenue & Customs, the UK government's tax collection agency, has turned down a request by the U.S.-born FATCA challenger known as "Jenny" to waive any so-called "adverse party costs", in the event that Jenny were to pursue her complaint that the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office had turned down – and lose.

A report published on Wednesday that said an unknown number of Austrian citizens who lacked U.S. citizenship or residency had received U.S. coronavirus stimulus checks has drawn an immediate and unambiguous response from expats who have yet to receive their money, as well as from one of the most outspoken critics of the EU's existing data protection regime.

The Democrats Abroad has forcefully rebutted arguments contained in a letter its Republican counterpart organization sent last week to President Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, in which the Republicans Overseas called on Meadows to use an executive order to address some of the key tax issues U.S. expats have been struggling with.

In what many American expats will hope could at last bring expat issues onto the agenda in the final weeks of the U.S. presidential campaign, the Republicans Overseas has asked White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to call on President Trump to use his authority, as president, to begin to make some of the changes these expats have long been calling for, but which Congress has failed to address.

Since Monday, Expatriates around the world have been re-tweeting and otherwise sharing a Bloomberg opinion piece that clearly explains what its writer says is the reason so many Americans have been renouncing their citizenships recently: "the nightmare of American tax and financial reporting".

Lawyers acting on behalf of the U.S.-born FATCA complainant known as "Jenny", who had been considering whether to go ahead with a challenge to the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office's May 29 decision not to uphold her crowd-funded complaint over the way her personal data has been sent to the U.S. by British entities in recent years, have formally requested that HM Revenue & Customs agree to waive any so-called "adverse party costs", in the event that Jenny were to go ahead with her challenge – and lose.

Just when it was beginning to seem that a challenge to the U.S. tax evasion law known as FATCA actually had a chance of getting somewhere, a lack of financing has emerged as an issue...

The Paris-based Association des Américains Accidentels (Accidental Americans Association, or AAA) has launched a crowd-funded campaign to finance a legal challenge to what it says is the "exorbitant" US$2,350 fee that the U.S. charges those wishing to renounce their U.S. citizenship.

Lawyers and campaigners against the American tax evasion law known as FATCA say that last week's European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling, which struck down the main mechanism used by the EU to protect the personal data of EU citizens when it's transferred to the U.S., represents a potential "game changer" – and could force Europe's courts to revisit the way FATCA compels Europe's banks and financial institutions to pass information on their U.S. citizen and Green Card-holding account-holders to the U.S. 

The historical origins of privacy law, in the context of EU human rights principles, and the disproportionate elements of America's FATCA legislation are among the topics discussed in the first-ever podcast interview of the U.S.-born FATCA challenger known only as "Jenny", along with her lawyer, Mishcon de Reya partner Filippo Noseda.