Hope is the last to die at the end. In the introductory statements to our last articles in respect of tax compliance for private equity and venture capital food e.g. in the FYB Financial Yearbook 2020: „Πάντα ῥεῖ – Everything flows!”, “Little is Flowing in the Right Direction!” (FYB Financial Yearbook 2022) or “Breaking out of a Time Loop” (FYB Financial Yearbook 2023) we were still basically hopeful and optimistic about a (return to a) systematic or dogmatically correct taxation of private equity.