Fewer judges’ positions
Bundesfinanzhof has to save and lose a senate
The federal courts are the highest authorities in German case law. They rarely become victims of austerity measures. But it happens like now at the Federal Finance Court.
The Federal Finance Court (BFH) loses one of its eleven senates: This Friday the XI, which has so far been responsible for sales and balance sheet tax law. Senate officially dissolved, as the BFH announced in Munich. This goes hand in hand with a job cut: instead of the almost 60 judges, there should be 53 in the future.
Judges who retire are therefore not replaced. There are no compulsory transfer to other dishes. The BFH is the highest German court for tax and customs disputes.
According to a report by the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, the Federal Administrative Court also loses judge positions, according to the Federal Ministry of Justice. Austerity measures in federal courts are rare. The kick -off was from Berlin, the “new legal weekly” had reported in the spring.
Fewer and fewer civil court proceedings
In recent years, the number of legal proceedings in all branches of civil jurisdiction has dropped sharply. In 2015, 2,632 proceedings were received at the BFH, in 2024 there were 1,744. The elected traffic light coalition already pursued plans to make the passage in court more attractive for citizens.
At the BFH, the cases of the dissolved XI. in the future from the V. and IX. Senate taken over. “The reduction of the senates does not lead to an impairment of the effective legal protection,” said BFH President Hans-Josef Thesling. “The BFH will continue to speak in the usual and competently competent way of the tax citizens.”
dpa
Source: Stern
