Dancing financial officials are outraged by taxpayers: Shitstorm on Tiktok!

A sensational Tikok video of the Baden-Württemberg finance ministry has caused a storm of indignation. In the clip, employees dance with banknotes and suitcases through the halls of the new castle in Stuttgart and take the song "Not Like Us" by Kendrick Lamar as background music. The title of the video, "the tax office on the way to get your additional payment" caused outrage for many taxpayers. The video has now been viewed over a hundred thousand times and received massive criticism on social media, where users described the behavior of the civil servants as "contemptuous" and "disrespectful", as oe24.de reported.

After the throat reactions became unmistakable, the Ministry of Finance quickly pulled the emergency brake and deleted the controversial video. Ministry spokesman Sebastian Engelmann, who can be seen in the clip himself, explained that the ministry had only followed one trend. The Baden-Württemberg finance minister Danyal Bayaz also commented on the incidents and emphasized via X that the tone of the video was inappropriate. He added that he did not know the video, but the deletion was the right decision. In the future, one wants to make sure that the communication of the ministry remains appropriate. This was reported welt.de .

political reactions and other effects

The criticism of the video was not only strong in public, but also from political ranks came symptoms. Prominent politicians, including the BSW politician Fabio de Masi and AfD boss Alice Weidel, also expressed themselves negatively about the clip. Weidel even went so far that, should it be real employees, this is a reason for the resignation of the responsible minister. The violent reactions illustrate the sensitivity of the topic and the expectations of citizens to the behavior of public institutions.