For more left-liberals Unite Calls from the Union soon after but the recognition of the charitable status according to. Differently it looks with Clubs from the right edge, such as panoramic -research shows.

“We need to look carefully, if there are facilities that operate under the guise of charity,” cried the CDU-Bundestag member Gitta Connemann at the party Congress in December into the microphone. Whom she meant was clear: the German environmental aid.

Since the Federal Finance court, the globalization-critical network Attac has revoked the charitable status but, from the Union to highlight the voices louder, also to other Clubs, the public good and the indirect state support. Other politically unpleasant Associations, if you will – Attac and the environmental assistance are likely to be left-liberal camp.

Exactly one might look, however in the case of Associations on the political right edge, recognized for decades as a non-profit and thus tax-favored. The are not noticed by the Union, apparently, as yet, although they regularly been reported. There are some, and the charity was for right-hand clubs “of immense importance, because in Germany, donations are usually only given when you can deduct the tax,” says the constitutional lawyer Professor Joachim Wieland of the University of Speyer. “In addition, the recognition gives as a non-profit a perhaps a little dubious Association with a certain seriousness.”