The U.S. born, UK-resident woman whose crowd-funded complaint over data protection violations she alleged had resulted from the way HMRC had forwarded her personal information to the U.S. was recently not upheld by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), is actively considering lodging a judicial review – but says that her legal advisers have told her she'll need to secure "£75,000 within the next 10 days" if she is to do so.

The Paris-based Accidental Americans Association today filed another lawsuit – its second in a little more than a year – in a Paris court, alleging that the way France's banks are complying with the U.S. tax law known as FATCA is causing them to be discriminated against by making it difficult if not impossible for them to maintain a French bank account.

The United Kingdom's Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has decided not to uphold a closely-watched, crowd-funded complaint over data protection violations that a U.S.-born, UK-resident complainant alleges have resulted from the way HMRC has forwarded her personal information to the U.S., in compliance with that country’s FATCA legislation. 

Last Wednesday, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced that it expects imminently to issue its decision in a closely-watched challenge over data protection violations that a U.S.-born, UK-resident complainant alleges have resulted from the way HMRC has forwarded her personal information to the U.S., in compliance with that country’s FATCA legislation.

Correspondence and other documents having to do with the way the U.S. tax evasion-prevention law known as FATCA was agreed upon, and is now enforced by EU governments – along with similar materials having to do with the OECD’s more recent automatic exchange of information (AEOI) regime known as the Common Reporting Standard – have been published by a campaigning lawyer with London’s Mishcon de Reya law firm.

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has announced that it is now pushing back the deadline for those in so-called Model 1 IGA FATCA jurisdictions to provide their FATCA data for the 2019 tax year to U.S. officials, in response to the global COVID-19 virus disruption. 

A 34-year-old, U.S.-born Dutchman who came to the Netherlands with his parents 29 years ago, and never left, has posted a GoFundMe.com petition, in an effort to raise the €4,269 he has calculated that he needs to renounce his American citizenship – because, he says, he would struggle to be able to to do it otherwise. 

European Parliamentarian Sophie in 't Veld, a champion of Europe's accidental Americans for the last several years, has challenged EU commissioner Paolo Gentiloni over his formal assessment of the situation facing such individuals, revealed earlier this week in the form of a written response to a question posed to the European Commission by another MEP in February. 

Europe's estimated 300,000 so-called 'accidental Americans' were dealt a fresh blow yesterday, in the form of a statement by a top EU official who said the European Commission had found "no evidence of the existence of an infringement" on the rights of such 'accidentals', as EU citizens, to have "a basic bank account".

A ruling last week by the UK's Supreme Court, in favor of a plaintiff who claimed that data protection laws had been broken in the transfer of her son's personal data to U.S. authorities, is being seen as potentially precedent-setting, as it is said to be the first such case involving questions about the legal transfer of personal data from Britain to the United States since the introduction of the GDPR across Europe in 2018.