Tax Authority discriminated against parents with dual nationality: Privacy regulator

For years the Tax Authority discriminated against parents with a dual nationality when they applied for childcare allowance. The tax office should have removed dual citizenship registration from their database in 2014, but in May 2018, over 1.4 million people were still registered in this way in the system - affecting their chances of getting an allowance, the Dutch Personal Data Protection Authority said in a report on Friday, NU.nl reports. And still the Tax Authority used dual nationality as a criteria for extra fraud controls, among other things, the authority concluded. Van Huffelen stressed that dual nationalities have been removed from the Tax Authority's systems and that measures are being taken to prevent similar mistakes in the future.