How can you get a refund for something that you didn't pay?
Every citizen with the proverbial common sense has at least a feeling of annoyance here.
And even if whole professions live from looking for tax loopholes, finding them and gliding through them as silently as possible - here it was obviously about injustice from the beginning.
After all, some lawyers and tax advisors had reservations about the Cum-Ex model, which the Federal Court of Justice has now confirmed to be criminal, and did not participate.
Others had no problem with such business - and went to prison.
Actually a hit for the SPD
No wonder that all parties now welcome the decision of the highest court, as the reprehensible practice has cost the state billions and tied up immense resources in administration and justice.
The citizen can continue to ask himself how this could come about, who has the benefit and how such abuse can be prevented in the future - after all, it is about business and loopholes, not for small savers, but for the knowledgeable large customer who handles tax administration and politics well can.
Actually, the SPD found food, especially in the election campaign.
But of all people, her candidate for chancellor, the Federal Minister of Finance, is silent.
He apparently has to be silent, because Olaf Scholz is involved in the cum-ex scandal.
It is the subject of a Hamburg investigative committee, as the Senate Administration wanted to forego many millions of euros in taxpayers' money from such transactions under his aegis.
According to Scholz, he could not remember any meetings with the bankers involved.
So it is no wonder that a broad opposition is advocating the respectable taxpayer and demanding clarification from the Social Democratic candidate for chancellor.
But so far there has hardly been anything stuck to Scholz that says anything about him, but also about his competition.
In any case, it is of little use to demand more taxes for the “rich” if they are relieved with such tricks.