Investigation of tax fraud: Anne Brorhilker urges Klingbeil to hurry

For Brorhilker, not enough has been done in the fight against financial crime in the past four years. She also criticized the Bureaucracy Reduction Act of the previous government of the SPD, Greens, and FDP as a "catastrophic mistake" because it allowed for a reduction in the retention periods for accounting documents and invoices from ten to eight years.

Brorhilker fears setbacks in the fight against tax crime

Brorhilker said: "The regulation does not provide relief for honest companies, but it does allow banks and other cum-cum offenders to destroy important evidence and thus prevent tax reclaims." However, since the reduction for banks does not come into force until the beginning of 2026, the finance minister still has a good six months to "get the investigation going before the offenders are allowed to fire up their shredders."