I think it's absolutely ridiculous that the tax authorities want to force this stuff on people before it's even available on all the important platforms. But the fact that you can actually file a tax return or submit a sales tax advance notification using only a tax number and address (which according to impressum requirements must be stated in that document anyway for businesses!) without any kind of verification whatsoever — that really takes the cake.
Brainless, thy name is tax authority ...
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
Red-Green is trying to overtake the Union on the right. What a bunch of nonsense. These federal idiots have time for such crap.

Hier gibts den Originalartikel.
Police State Hesse?
At heise online news you can find the original article.
And democracy is being trampled on. The European economy too. The only ones profiting from this are the large multinational corporations that are already trying to eliminate their competitors today in areas where it's possible - mainly the United States of Dementia - with idiotic patents. And of course the many patent shakedown companies that try to push through the most absurd things as patents just to make quick money without any performance of their own.
One has to ask oneself who the members of the EU Council (and the national governments supporting them) are actually being paid by. The whole thing simply stinks of corruption.
At heise online news there's the original article.