[aleph_minus_one]

> which is unfair for those who have to pay their fair share of taxes and support the burden of the social system.

You (as a government) want people to be honest with their taxes? Set up the taxation laws so that "being honest" is incredibly easy. Instead Germany has one of the most convoluted taxation laws in the world.

This alone should provide strong evidence that all the talk about "tax fraud" is just some pretense to adopt new surveillance laws and/or make them socially acceptable to adopt.

[ChuckNorris89]

Something being difficult and complicated, like doing your taxes, is no excuse for braking the law. It's unfair that those with formal employment can't dodge taxes because they only get the NET amount in their bank account, and those with cash businesses can. Either legalize tax fraud for everyone or crack down on it for everyone.

Simplifying tax bureaucracy will not happen in Germany as it's the bread and butter of many companies who make their living on helping you deal with the complex system, and if the system were to be reformed, all these parasites would go bust. That aint gonna happen.

Another reason why it aint gonna happen is that it's what the majority of Germans voted for. They prefer having a system where that enables some businesses to dodge taxes masquerading as "privacy", so the politicians can't take this away and still expect to get reelected.

[aleph_minus_one]

> Another reason why it aint gonna happen is that it's what the majority of Germans voted for.

In 2005, Angela Merkel (CDU) gave the campaign promise to simplify the taxation system immensely (using a system that the renowned export Paul Kirchhof (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kirchhof) developed). Independently, at the same time, Friedrich Merz, Merkel's "frenemy" at the CDU, independently made his own proposals to strongly simplify the taxation system ("Bierdeckelsteuer" [beer coaster tax]; meaning that for a typical citizen the whole tax declaration should fit on a beer coaster).

I know a lot of young people who voted for the CDU in the 2005 election exactly because of the ideas of Paul Kirchhof to simplify the taxation system despite otherwise not being attracted to the election goals of the CDU.

In 2005, the CDU became the strongest party in the German Federal Parliament. But Angela Merkel and the CDU broke this campaign promise. In other words: these politicians are nothing but mere fraudsters who deserve to rot in the jail for breaking such a campaign promise.

Thus: The problem is not that the Germans did not vote for this, but the problem is that the politicians are fraudsters breaking election promises and thus belong in jail instead of the parliament.