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- Title
Automatisierung in der Ausbildungsförderung.
- Authors
Bienefeld, Nina
- Abstract
In Germany, many students wait for months for state support granted by the Federal Training Assistance Act („BAföG"). In the meantime, they have to cover their living expenses on their own and regularly at the expense of their studies. The reasons for this lie in particular in the slow pace of digitalisation and the lack of staff within the responsible authorities. For example, due to the lack of introduction of e-files, applications submitted digitally within the authority must first be printed out before they can be processed. By contrast, tax authorities have been relying on digitalisation for many years. Electronically submitted tax returns have been assessed and processed fully automatically for years, so that taxpayers can expect to receive a tax assessment notice after just a few weeks. As part of the Act on the Modernization of the Taxation Procedure of 18.07.2016, the legislator decided not only to provide for the so-called fully automated administrative act in the Fiscal Code, but also to implement it in all three federal procedural regulations. In this respect, it is examined whether it is already possible under current legislation to issue BAföG notices in a fully automated manner and whether possible consequences can be drawn from the regulatory regime of exclusively automated tax assessment in order to achieve the urgently needed efficiency increases within the BAföG authorities.
- Subjects
GERMANY; GOVERNMENT aid; COST of living; ADMINISTRATIVE acts; TAX returns; DIGITAL technology
- Publication
KritV, CritQ, RCrit. Kritische Vierteljahresschrift für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft / Critical Quarterly for Legislation & Law / Revue critique trimestrielle de jurisprudence et de législation, 2023, Vol 106, Issue 4, p379
- ISSN
2193-7869
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5771/2193-7869-2023-4-379