Ongeveer 240.000 belastingplichtigen krijgen de komende maanden van de Belastingdienst en de Dienst Toeslagen te horen dat hun gegevens in de zogeheten fraudesignaleringsvoorziening (FSV) hebben gestaan. De eerste 2000 krijgen nog deze maand het bericht, waarin de Belastingdienst spijt betuigt voor het gebruik van dit systeem dat niet aan de privacywet AVG voldeed. De overige brieven worden, tot eind juni, in twee zendingen verstuurd.

On 26 January 2021, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) published its Special Report 03/2021 on the exchange of tax information in the EU. The underlying tool is the Directive on administrative cooperation in the field of taxation (Directive 2011/16/EU), which has been amended several times in the recent years to widen its scope. The ECA carried out audits in five Member States between 2014 and 2019: Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Cyprus. For this purpose, the ECA examined, firstly, how the Commission is monitoring the implementation and performance of the tax information exchange system. Secondly, the ECA looked at how Member States are using the information exchanged and how they are measuring the effectiveness of the system.