Taxpayers' Association criticizes further waste of tax money in Bavaria in “Black Book”.

In its new "Black Book", the Taxpayers' Association complains about numerous projects, including in Bavaria, which, in its opinion, are wasting taxpayers' money. The focus of criticism is often drastic cost increases when construction projects get out of control over the years - also because many of these projects take longer.

This year, for example, the Taxpayers' Association is criticizing the well-known cost explosion in the construction of the second Munich S-Bahn main line. In its forecast, Deutsche Bahn now assumes costs of around eleven billion euros until the planned commissioning in a good ten years.

There are also complaints about drastic cost increases in the renovation of the Mainfranken Theater in Würzburg. Or the plan to bring two pandas from China to the Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich. The Taxpayers' Association is also bothered by, for example, a trip to Kenya by members of the state parliament's economic committee. The authorities and institutions concerned have justified or explained in detail the costs or cost increases in statements to the Taxpayers' Association.

The Taxpayers' Association is a private association that politically advocates, among other things, the efficient use of tax money and solid state finances, i.e. it questions the federal government's new debt and spending. He lobbies for this in the Bundestag and with highly publicized campaigns.

The Taxpayers' Association emphasizes that it is politically neutral. The Black Book is still controversial. It is criticized for merely listing spectacular individual cases, but often ignoring their context and not drawing a representative overall picture of tax waste. Authorities and municipalities that are named often defend themselves against the allegations.