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Some years ago there was a docu on TV where they calculated in black-on-white numbers that around one half of all globally existent literature on tax systems and laws - are just about the German tax system.

And you may want to ask the question why these systems are being tailored to be so complicated. Maybe it has something to do with the immense lobbying done?

Tax deductions are a favourite ways for companies to reduce their tax obligations. Thats why the big players invest enormous money into lpobbying for such deducation schemes, and for expanding them.

You see, when some crazy man would legalise car theft, it would mean nothing. Stealing a car still would be considered to be a crime by every reasonable person. And a law tryxing to legalise that crime - maybe is nothing more than a law that is criminal in itself.

That'S how I think about tax deductions when they allow things like in the earlier described things. And law-makers accepoting such laws, are either incompetent, or criminal and/or complices themselves. Since there are many politicians who have positioned themselves inside massive conflicts of interest becasue they also hold some seat in some director'S board or are CEO in some bank, this cannot surprise at all. Being an elected representative of the people and at the same time being a member of a board of directors, does not go well - especially when the person in question has own treasures at risk, and as a politicians has the option to design legislation to give them special protection.

Those holding powers shall not be allowed to exclude themselves from the consequences of the decisions they impose onto all others. Politics and private business should be kept separate. Lobby work shall be prohibited, should be seen as what it is: a form of corruption and a bypassing of the electorate, and should be put under penalty. All tax deductions should be banned, like all subsidies should be banned, too. - This just for a start.