Hi Amy
The position we woud take is that there is provision in the Data Protection Act, Schedule 2.5. It is this 'Condition relevant for the purposes of the first principle' that permits UK data controllers to provide information about their staff or (where relevant) customers to HMRC /DWP. However this condition does not apply to foreign governmments or their departments as, if you read the detail in the 'condition' you will clearly see that (unless i am unaware of a relevant SI or IGA) there is no legal basis for the disclosure. I would therfore conclude that their use of the S29 provision is not sufficient to enable you to disclose.
This is not dissimilar to the new-ish French Trustee Tax law where the French government want finance companies to tell them about beneficiaries, settlors and French trustee assets to reclaim wealth tax from thos individuals. We are unable to comply as there is no legal basis for doing so. If we were to provide the information they seek we would be non-compliant with DPA.
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