agreement between the Federal government and the States: Until the end of 2021 should be deprived of any further organisations on the basis of the Attac-judgment, the non-profit status.

Until the end of 2021 no further political Association, the non-profit photo: Roland Geisheimer/attenzione

BERLIN taz | Good news for political organizations, which had to fear the so-called Attac-judgment of the bundesfinanzhof also to their non-profit status: The Olaf Scholz (SPD) - led Federal Ministry of Finance has agreed to the information of the taz with the ministries of Finance of the countries to be deprived of that is, until the end of next year, no other Clubs on the basis of this judgment, the non-profit withdrawal. Until then, the non-profit status should be revised in law.

Until the end of 2021 should be based on already non-profit organizations "of Confidence" first of all, there are no consequences from the judgment to pull it to the grounds in a Letter from the Ministry, which is the taz. So that should be eliminated, up to a statutory solution, a "significant uncertainty" that have triggered the judgment. In December, this proposal was failed on the resistance of individual countries. At a Meeting at the Department head level in Berlin, all contributed to him on Friday, but a spokesman said the Ministry of Finance.

The Federal Finance court had not decided a year ago that political education is considered to be a non-profit, if a certain political course is represented. In addition, the political lobbying could also be for other charitable purposes such as the protection of the environment is not in the foreground.

The globalization kritiche network Attac had lost the benefit to the public. Thus, donations to the network are no longer tax deductible and the projects can be from nonprofit foundations financed.

Later, the non-profit status had been withdrawn as a result of this decision, the organization Campact. Many other associations feared in the next scheduled extension of the non-profit status this year, the same consequence.

The Alliance of "legal certainty for political will-formation", in which a number of organisations have come together of hundreds of organizations concerned. These are protected by the current decision of the ministries of Finance of the Federation and the länder now.

For associations such as Attac and Campact, in which a decision has already been made, as well as for newly founded clubs, the arrangement does not apply. Attac was only failed a week ago with a lawsuit in front of the Hessian Finance court.

Also the Association of the Persecutees of the Nazi regime (VVN-BdA) benefited from the agreement of the Minister of Finance. She had been deprived by the end of 2019, the non-profit status, because they had been classified in the Bavarian constitutional protection report as the left extreme. After strong social protests, the competent tax office had suspended here, however, is an additional Tax for the time being.

Minister of Finance Scholz, and had announced as a consequence of the widely criticised Attac's decision to reform the charity law and other funding purposes. The Union, however, claims to tighten the requirements further. A draft law is not a matter of the past.

Stefan Diefenbach-Trommer of the legal security Alliance, the Problem is not solved a question with the current decision. "The Moratorium gives the associations a pause for breath," he told the taz. Now, however, it had to follow the change in the law and clearly made that commitment needs to be promoted. "Otherwise, the government will damage the commitment of those who defend our democracy, free from own interests, or claims of Power."