Dear Reader, When my partner and I welcomed our second child to the world last November, we only had a few days to enjoy the moment. In the back of our minds, we knew that a mountain of paperwork was awaiting us. First, we needed to register our baby with the Standesamt. Once he was registered, we could take his birth certificate to the Bürgeramt to get him a passport. Meanwhile, his information was automatically passed on to the Finanzamt, which assigned him a tax number.
I have not yet heard of a solution to bureaucracy. If you try to fight it, it grows bigger. Maybe the one where every citizen is given an Email Identity and everything is done remotely via that Email Address?
Where you‘ve got benefits or subsidies, you always need bureaucratic control. In Britain, a gang of five people were caught and pleaded guilty to numerous charges involving creating false Universal Credit claims worth £53,901,959.82. Universal Credit was an attempt to simplify and streamline the benefits system. The bureaucracy surrounding farm subsidies makes the present and proposed benefit systems you describe sound positively straightforward!
I have not yet heard of a solution to bureaucracy. If you try to fight it, it grows bigger. Maybe the one where every citizen is given an Email Identity and everything is done remotely via that Email Address?
Where you‘ve got benefits or subsidies, you always need bureaucratic control. In Britain, a gang of five people were caught and pleaded guilty to numerous charges involving creating false Universal Credit claims worth £53,901,959.82. Universal Credit was an attempt to simplify and streamline the benefits system. The bureaucracy surrounding farm subsidies makes the present and proposed benefit systems you describe sound positively straightforward!