FATCA Thoughts From 2019: @Tpsmyth01 - @ADCSovereignty Trial Podcast

February 28, 2019 - Participants include:

 

John Richardson - @Expatriationlaw

 

Tim Smyth - @Tpsmyth01

 

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In 2014 the Alliance For The Defence Of Canadian Sovereignty filed its FATCA lawsuit against the Government of Canada. The trial was held in January of 2019 in the Federal Court of Canada. In July of 2019, the court ruled in favour of the constitutionality of the FATCA IGA and against the ADCS plaintiffs. The appeal of the ADCS-ADSC trial is being heard on December 13, 2021. In other words, it's almost three years since the trial. (Incidentally it took a full five years for the trial to be heard.)

Win lose or draw, we fully expect that the case will eventually be heard by the Supreme Court of Canada.

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This podcast was created in February of 2019 after the FATCA trial. The podcast was organized by Tim Smyth. I thought it would be interesting to repost this podcast in order to understand the perspectives at that time.