Speaking on German Deutschlandfunk radio, Mr Schaeuble said there were "unbelievably complex schemes" for avoiding taxes.
BBC: Germany's Schaeuble welcomes data on global tax evasion
That is certainly the view and the ambition of the German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble.
But some of the German media says Mr Schaeuble's name will remain associated with the slush-funding scandal.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble repeated this view Sunday, in an interview to newspaper Bild am Sonntag.
The German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said "nobody in Europe sees the contradiction between fiscal consolidation and growth".
Her Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, has voiced scepticism about Cyprus' plans to raise billions of euros without the levy.
In Berlin, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble called the levy part of the "fair" distribution of the bailout's burden.
It was summed up this week by the German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.
The German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, agreed that, in relation to the eurozone, "I think we have done quite well".
The country's finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, told the Court that sometimes things needed to be decided fast and in secret.
German Finance Minister Schaeuble immediately responded that granting Greece more time or money will not help Greece overcome its problems.
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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has been quoted by German media as saying that Greece should focus on reforming its economy.
German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Sunday that a no vote by Cypriot lawmakers would have huge repercussions in the country.
In May, German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble urged extra vigilance from the public to help tackle a rise in far-right extremism.
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Her comments appeared to contradict German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble who said last week that the worst of the crisis was over.
Recently I asked the German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, how far we were through the crisis and he thought somewhere between 50 and 60%.
"I can't see at all how any modification of the gun law could have changed anything about what has happened, " said German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.
Some members of the CDU believe that Angela Merkel, who took over as party leader after Schaeuble stood down, is too weak a candidate for chancellor.
Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said that without the euro, "we would have a much weaker economy, a much weaker Germany and a much weaker social security system".
Also, on Wednesday, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble ruled out a third package of aid for Greece, but stressed that it would be staying in the eurozone.
However, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said he and the International Monetary Fund had been in favour of "respecting the deposit guarantee for accounts up to 100, 000" euros.
Mr Schaeuble's own admission that he received the money and allegations that he had misled parliament about the event forced his resignation as party leader early last year.
However, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble accepted that, later down the road, there could be debt relief if Greece completed its adjustment programme and no longer needed new loans.
The German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, told the Athens daily Ta Nea that he believed the austerity measures were not just working but making up for decades of policy lapses.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble called for a more rational return to calm and reality in financial markets, which have responded skittishly to euro zone debt, according to Thomson Reuters.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was quoted by German media as suggesting that Greece should focus on reforming its economy and that the issue of war reparations was definitively closed years ago.
"Then the Cypriot banks will no longer be solvent, and Cyprus will be in a very difficult situation, " said Schaeuble who insisted that every country involved in Europe's debt crisis is different.
One of Mr Schaeuble's ministerial colleagues, Steffen Kampeter, said Germany needed to co-ordinate action against tax evaders at the federal level, proposing a new agency like the FBI in the US to do so.
BBC: Germany's Schaeuble welcomes data on global tax evasion
The former chancellor is at the centre of a political funding scandal that has already claimed a number of casualties in the opposition Christian Democratic Union, including his successor as party leader, Wolfgang Schaeuble.
But Thursday's decision has given even greater impetus to those senior German conservatives who believe Mr Schaeuble could reverse the ailing fortunes of the CDU, whose public support has spiralled downwards since the funding scandal started to unfold.
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