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1title: Tax Offices assign Personal Identification Numbers
2date: 2008-08-12 00:00:00
3updated: 2009-04-18 19:12:41
4author: frankro
5tags: update
6
7German citizens are receiving letters from their Tax Office containing their new 11-digit tax IDs. Germany-based civil rights organization Chaos Computer Club (CCC) considers this number to be an illegal personal identification number (Personenkennziffer) and fears its misuse by the authorities.
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11From now on every citizen will receive a lifetime personal
12identification number in spite of such an ID having already been
13rejected by the German Federal Constitutional Court in the so-called
14"Mikrozensus" verdict of 1969. All old tax numbers will be replaced with
15the new ones by the end of the year while software updates necessary to
16handle them are currently being rolled out to Local Tax Offices.
17
18Established in 2003, the statutory basis for the tax ID was supposed to
19be used to improve tax compliance. However, the CCC sees widespread
20possibilities for misusing the tax ID, since specific provision has been
21made for further use by "regulations" in the German Tax Code.
22
23The CCC refers to [extensive information provided by the Humanistische
24Union (Humanist
25Union)](http://www.humanistische-union.de/themen/datenschutz/steuer_id/%0A)
26and advises all people concerned to get involved in the legal test case.
27
28In 2007, the tax ID [was awarded the Big Brother Award in the Politics
29category](http://www.bigbrotherawards.de/2007/.pol/index_html?set_language=de).