Except it's not true, I did my German taxes fully digitally last year, it's very much encouraged.
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
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Wiggly mouse-drawn comics where balls represent different countries. They poke fun at national stereotypes and the "international drama" of their diplomatic relations. Polandball combines history, geography, Engrish, and an inferiority complex.
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Not like that makes it any easier though and also not on your phone, no? I couldn't imagine using Elster on my phone.
I used to do it on my phone with an app called steuerbot. Very convenient. It's simply a chatbot that asks you all the stuff it needs to know and then fills out the forms accordingly and sends them digitally via an Elster connection. Completely sufficient for regular taxes when you are not self employed.
I've tried one of those a couple of times, in different stages in my life, and every time I got "this is too complicated, do it on your own". No idea why, I've never been self-employed. I also don't know if it's such a good idea to encourage that whole Steuerberatung industry instead of providing an official usable solution.
Why use nazi rhetoric?
What part of it is nazi rhetoric?
"Arbeit macht frei" was and is usually found on a sign on top of gates the concentration camps, since they typically were forced to perform labor under horrid conditions. The most infamous one with a sign was called Auschwitz. Originally used for prisoner of war from Poland, the nazi soon built Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1942 where 700 people could simultaneously killed but you would be locked up on the killing chamber for up to a week, with no food and water, until it was "worth it" to kill enough people at once...
There isn't "arbeit macht frei" on the comic though.
The poster kindly edited it out
Ah OK, so I haven't completely lost it yet. Thanks.
I didn't see it at first but @Sakychu@lemmy.world pointed it out and I removed it.