Kernrechtsfrage
Whether legal aid can be granted for proceedings that have already been concluded when the application is filed.
Extrahierter Entscheid
A legal-aid application for a concluded proceeding is ineffective and cannot be granted.
Extrahierte Begründung
The court held that once judicial proceedings have ended, a request for process cost assistance for those proceedings can no longer be validly made. The complaint proceedings at issue had already been terminated by an earlier BFH order before the application was filed.