German tax union
The German Tax Union ( DSTG ) is a politically independent interest group for the personnel of the financial administration of the Federal Republic of Germany with approx. 79,000 members. It is a member union of the German Association of Officials .
The DSTG works - together with the state representations - for humane working conditions as a prerequisite for efficient and citizen-friendly financial management .
The association is not limited to union objectives (employee representation and demands for appropriate staffing), but also acts in the area of tax policy. In particular, the DSTG advocates consistent criminal prosecution of tax evaders and is angry about public references to the possibility of voluntary self-indictments. The chairman of the association was Dieter Ondracek from 1995 to June 2011. He was elected honorary chairman after his resignation . His successor as chairman is Thomas Eigenhaler.
history
It was founded by a document dated June 2, 1949 in Beverungen an der Weser as the Association of German Tax Officials ( BDSt ). The founding associations were the regional associations of the British occupation zone : the regional associations Hamburg , Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein , as well as the district associations Düsseldorf , Cologne and Westphalia . In the further course of 1949 and 1950, other regional associations joined, and in January 1951 the "Association of Tax Officials in Greater Berlin" also became a member. In the period that followed, there were the district associations of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hesse , Koblenz , Cologne, North Baden, Palatinate , Schleswig-Holstein, Westphalia and Württemberg, as well as the state associations of Bremen and Lower Saxony. The state association of tax officials in Baden, the association of tax officials in Bavaria, the association of tax officials in Greater Berlin and the state committee Württemberg-Hohenzollern became members under other names.
As can be seen from the original name, it was initially purely a professional representation of the civil service. However, after around a third of the employees in the tax administration were employed under collective agreements at the beginning of the 1970s (salaried employees and workers), the union opened up to employees from 1972 onwards. The aim was to become a uniform trade union for the entire financial administration. At the 1975 Tax Union Conference , it was decided to rename the German Tax Union ( DSTG ).
In 1990 the member associations located in the GDR area joined: the state associations of Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia .
Chairperson
- 1948–1957: Theodor Fockele
- 1957–1979: Hermann Fredersdorf
- 1979–1987: Werner Hagedorn (1929–2019), German tax officer and trade unionist
- 1987–1995: Erhard Geyer
- 1995–2011: Dieter Ondracek
- since 2011: Thomas Eigenhaler
structure
Due to the federal structure of the financial administration according to the Financial Administration Act , the DStG is also organized accordingly. There are five district associations (Federal Ministry of Finance, Baden, Rhineland, Westphalia, Württemberg) and 14 regional associations (Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saar, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig -Holstein and Thuringia). At the local level there are around 750 local associations at the offices of the tax offices, finance schools and finance courts.
There are special subdivisions for individual areas within the association, namely for
- youth
- Women
- Tariff and
- Seniors.
Tax policy goals
The DSTG advocates among other things
- Tax simplification, especially the dismantling of regulations that have a subsidy effect
- Abolition of the final withholding tax
- Combating VAT fraud and the like a. through the introduction of audit-proof cash register systems
- Active fight against tax evasion by online retailers on global platforms such as Amazon, eBay, etc.
- Introduction of a child-oriented family splitting
- Examination of the reintroduction of wealth tax
- Combating tax havens and mailbox domiciles
- Federal competencies in personnel deployment in the state tax administrations
Memberships
The association is a member of the following organizations:
- Union of Finance Personnel in Europe , an association of European tax and customs unions
- Deutsche Finanzsporthilfe, an association for the promotion of sport among employees of the financial administration
criticism
In the course of the Hessian tax investigator affair , when unpopular tax investigators were put into early retirement with false reports, criticism of the German tax union came up. The Hessian DSTG state chairman Michael Volz did not stand behind the dismissed tax investigators , but on the side of Finance Minister Karlheinz Weimar . The Federal Administrative Court found that Weimar could not pass responsibility on to subordinate authorities, but that its ministry and the Hessian regional finance directorate would have been obliged, according to the current legal situation, to "independently" examine the reasons for the retirement.
Before he was posted, Michael Volz worked at the head of the regional association at the Gelnhausen tax office.
Web links
- dstg.de - Official website of the German Tax Union
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://dstg.de/ueberuns.html
- ↑ DSTG ‹About Us› Federal Administration
- ^ Memorandum "DSTG 60 Years", edited by Dr. Paul Courth, Heinz Gewehr and Rafel Zender, 2009, pp. 22 to 25
- ↑ Festschrift "DSTG 60 Years", edited by Dr. Paul Courth, Heinz Gewehr and Rafel Zender, 2009, pages 48, 49, 54
- ↑ http://dstg.de/ueberuns.html , accessed on February 9, 2019
- ↑ http://www.dstg.de/pdfs/ueberuns/dstg_satzung.pdf , accessed on February 9, 2019
- ↑ http://www.dstg.de/pdfs/2017/170919_18-SGT_Leitfrage_I.pdf , accessed on February 9, 2019
- ↑ http://www.dstg.de/ueberuns/finanzsporthilfe.html , accessed on February 9, 2019
