“Hannibal,” replied the prospective donor promptly. Donations for the club can be Uniter tax-deductible? To those of the Association so that plays in to the extreme right network an important role, according to research, among other things, the “taz” on the “day X”, and the best relationships in different security agencies.
On the 27. February 2019 to 15.51 at Hannibal writes in the Tagesspiegel to this E-Mail: “Until now, everyone could use our donation receipts and also to the office to submit. We are a non-profit Association according to German law. Works so! Best regards, your back-office.”
benefit of active right-wing radical so for tax purposes? The head of the extreme-right network to be André S., a former soldier in the special forces command (KSK) in Baden-Württemberg, equipped with good contacts to the Military counterintelligence service (MAD). As the deck name is Hannibal. As Vice-chair of the Uniter, he ran under the cover name of chat groups, where members – including former and active members of special units, including the scenario of a collapse of the political order in Germany. Investigations to run. At the beginning of February, the SWR reported, citing an informant from the ranks of the KSK in Calw, at the Uniter, there is a “hard core of 80 to 100 people” that have created weapons depots.
The Stuttgart-based club Uniter, with its claims to approximately 1800 members of the self-deny, to be a shadow army. He does not want to be the extreme right. A community of former elite soldiers and police officers supported each other and the soldiers to help in the Transition to civilian life, is to be established, an Association Executive explains.
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In the articles of Association, it is stated: “Within the structures of the Uniter not a radical or extremist tendencies will be tolerated.” Uniter is meant to be a “non-political, independent and nondenominational merger”. As the Association’s purpose Uniter is the “promotion of continuing vocational education and training”. With this Statute, the Association at the tax office Stuttgart reached the recognition as a “non-profit”. Donations are tax deductible. The baden-württemberg Ministry of Finance is in reference to the tax secret is any information to the Association. It is unclear whether the tax authorities in Baden-Württemberg, an examination of the tax treatment of the Uniter.
The baden-württemberg Greens member of the state Parliament, Alexander Maier, spokesman of his group for strategies against right-wing extremism, says the daily mirror: “It cannot be that the charitable status of Attac repealed, or the German environment assistance as a non-profit organization in question. And on the other side of the Uniter can switch as a non-profit Association and exercise, although this grouping is suspected to have a right-wing shadow army established.” Maier calls: “This is a dubious and dangerous underground network needs to be illuminated in a comprehensive Review, as a matter of urgency.”
people who have access to weapons, and their commitment to the free democratic basic order in doubt, constituted a safety problem, says the Green politician.
call for donations on the Homepage of the Association “Uniter”: For large donors, there is order.Screenshot: Matthias Meisner/daily mirror
The Left-hand member of the German Bundestag Martina Renner asks as Uniter of all the non-profit could receive. She tells the daily mirror: “While Attac, the Association of the Persecutees of the Nazi regime (VVN) and other associations of democratic civil society are threatened by a number of financial offices, quasi-existence, the extreme right have a free Hand.” Renner further explains: “The club Uniter seems to be not only of the rights of soldiers from the KSK, and is said to have planned a coup. There were even proven Links to a suspected terrorist. I can’t help but get the impression that the authorities look the other way, consciously or not someone has reasons to keep his protective Hand over Uniter, Hannibal and co..” The VVN had announced at the end of February, that your various financial offices would threaten in North Rhine-Westphalia, with the withdrawal of charitable status because the organization mentioned in the Bavarian constitutional protection report as the left extreme.
right Hetz-Portal “JouWatch”: authorities in the exchange
The dispute about the charitable status of Uniter is similar to the rights Hetz-Portal JouWatch, 2017, the tax office Jena, the non-profit status within the meaning of the tax law is awarded. It provides AfD politicians and anti-refugee movement Pegida is a platform that publishes, advertisers posts about the protection of the Constitution as a suspected case is observed Identitarian movement. Search and rescue in the Mediterranean sea is made as an “illegal human trafficking” branded, sentiment against the supposed “asylum cheaters” and an “asylum-tsunami”. One of the current “news”: “Color carnival: a dark-skinned with white Sweater wife raped pour in the green.”
As the purpose of the Association JouWatch to the promotion of popular education. The Portal at the right edge of the Internet, a campaigned for donations with the note: “you save taxes with any donation ,and so the Merkel-Regime can wipe out’ in addition.” After the financial authorities were in Thuringia, on the discrepancy between the alleged purpose and actual activity carefully, threaded JouWatch his club seat in Saxony Meissen and delayed tests.
Although the financial authorities from Saxony and Thuringia, according to daily mirror information in the case JouWatch now in exchange. Nevertheless, the examination of a possible withdrawal of charitable status is designed to be as lengthy. On a day-mirror-request on Twitter Saxony’s Finance Minister Matthias Haß (CDU), said: “We are big Fans of Twitter and the daily mirror. It is, however, forbidden by law, that we Express ourselves to tax individual cases. Generally speaking, the non-profit character of the Association is assessed according to the nationwide standardised criteria of the competent tax office.”
General Problem: With a good accountant and a neat Statute, it is for clubs to be relatively easy to get from a tax office as a charitable organization recognized. But detection in case of misuse considerably more difficult. Prior to that many years of proceedings before the financial courts, such as are often recently also in the case of the globalization critics of Attac.
in Addition, it lacks the financial offices, in many cases, the staff to verify the charitable status regularly and thoroughly. Stefan Diefenbach-Trommer speaks for the Alliance, “legal certainty for political will-formation”. He says in General: “civil society is non-profit.” In the case of Attac, the German Federal Supreme court have interpreted the charitable purpose of education is “very closely”. With a view to politically extreme clubs that have been recognized as a charitable organization, says Diefenbach-Trommer: “Generally, charitable purposes, open spaces for social negotiation of what serves the common good best be – different points of view and perspectives.” But of course there is limits that were already in the law. “To control to these limits, tax offices are appropriately equipped and qualified.” The Deutsche Juristentag had recommended in September last year, country-wide focus on financial institutes to set up.
Green demand Register of non-profit organizations
A different proposal, such as the examination of the charitable status could be improved, the Green party member of Parliament Manuela Rottmann. It calls for a nation-wide public Register of the organisations recognised as charitable. “In front of politically active associations and Clubs, no one need be afraid, if their financing is transparent,” says Rottmann day-to-day level. “With the uniform disclosure requirements for non-profit organizations on their financial sources and business activities, graded according to the size of the organization, we are creating transparency for donors, citizens and financial institutions.”
