From 1c61c263f6c9e3e4d880637886f753fced57f9e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: frankro Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:12:41 +0000 Subject: committing page revision 1 --- updates/2008/steuerid.en.md | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 updates/2008/steuerid.en.md (limited to 'updates/2008') diff --git a/updates/2008/steuerid.en.md b/updates/2008/steuerid.en.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..77ace229 --- /dev/null +++ b/updates/2008/steuerid.en.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +title: Tax Offices assign Personal Identification Numbers +date: 2008-08-12 00:00:00 +updated: 2009-04-18 19:12:41 +author: frankro +tags: update + +German 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. + + + +From now on every citizen will receive a lifetime personal +identification number in spite of such an ID having already been +rejected by the German Federal Constitutional Court in the so-called +"Mikrozensus" verdict of 1969. All old tax numbers will be replaced with +the new ones by the end of the year while software updates necessary to +handle them are currently being rolled out to Local Tax Offices. + +Established in 2003, the statutory basis for the tax ID was supposed to +be used to improve tax compliance. However, the CCC sees widespread +possibilities for misusing the tax ID, since specific provision has been +made for further use by "regulations" in the German Tax Code. + +The CCC refers to [extensive information provided by the Humanistische +Union (Humanist +Union)](http://www.humanistische-union.de/themen/datenschutz/steuer_id/%0A) +and advises all people concerned to get involved in the legal test case. + +In 2007, the tax ID [was awarded the Big Brother Award in the Politics +category](http://www.bigbrotherawards.de/2007/.pol/index_html?set_language=de). -- cgit v1.2.3