I assure you, unless it's about multi-billion euro companies, the German state does not care at all whether they'll lose a tax payer or ten or ten thousands (so

I assure you, unless it's about multi-billion euro companies, the German state does not care at all whether they'll lose a tax payer or ten or ten thousands (source: me, a tax payer that gets fucked by the bureaucracy at every opportunity). Data Protection is taken extremely seriously and everything that is associated with "big data" is extra suspicious. Throw in "think of the children" for extra spice. I doubt tax income on copyright dividends even registers.