Subsidies granted as tax privileges are as popular around the globe as they are troublesome. Michael Thöne digitally joins a regional workshop of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL / ECLAC) in Mexico City to report on Germany's early progress in evaluating tax expenditures. Currently, the significant progress being made in this area in Latin America and in many partner countries of German development cooperation is impressive, while at the same time little is happening in Germany itself.