Compulsory contribution to IHK is constitutional

The Federal Constitutional Court has rejected two constitutional complaints against the compulsory contribution to the Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

The Federal Constitutional Court considers the obligation to pay contributions associated with compulsory membership of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) to be unobjectionable under constitutional law and has therefore dismissed two constitutional complaints. For the constitutional judges, it is not evident that the IHKs have been assigned tasks that entail unnecessary costs, or that there are other ways of raising funds for the IHKs with less intrusive effect than compulsory contributions just as reliably from those affected.