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If you do pay church tax, you can deduct this amount in full as a “special expense” on your annual tax return to reduce your taxable income.

In the other federal states, it’s 9 percent. In Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, your church tax bill amounts to 8 percent of what you paid in income tax. Like other surcharge taxes (for instance the solidarity surcharge), it is based on the amount of income tax you pay, minus any child allowances. How much you pay in church tax varies according to your salary and where you live. It’s also worth noting that if you are religious and you want to become a member of Catholic, Protestant or Jewish communities, or use their facilities - for instance to get married, have a baby baptised, or have a Christian burial - you will need to register and pay church tax. Using church facilities if you don’t pay church tax If you’ve ever been religious, you might end up paying the church tax.

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There have been some reported cases of people marking themselves as not religious on their registration forms, only to later be asked for hundreds of euros in back payments.Ĭhurches in Germany have been known to contact churches abroad for details about their members, and so if you were baptised in your home country, or regularly attended services, you could find yourself found out and slapped with a big bill. If you are not religious (or just don’t want to pay the tax), you can specify this by writing “oa” in the box (which stands for “ keiner öffentlich-rechtlichen Religionsgesellschaft angehörig” or no religious affiliation) or simply put a dash through the box and opt out - at least, in theory. Your answers will then be forwarded to the tax office, who will link your tax ID to your church tax liability. If you do belong to a religious community, you can indicate this here using one of the following abbreviations: In the Anmeldung form, you are asked questions about your religion. One of the first things you need to do when you arrive in Germany is register with your local citizens’ office to receive your registration certificate. For Germans who have been baptised, that’s relatively simple to work out, but in the case of expats, it gets a little more complicated. Who has to pay the German church tax ( Kirchensteuer)?īroadly speaking, anyone who is a member of a church that collects taxes is liable to pay the German church tax. Members of other religious communities, including the Orthodox, Baptist, Salvation Army, Jehovah’s Witness, Muslim and Buddhist communities, are not liable to pay church taxes in Germany.Ĭommunities may either rely on taxation authorities in Germany to collect the contributions for them, via regular income tax (for a small fee), or choose to collect the church tax themselves. Unitarian religious communities in Rhineland-Palatinate.The Reformed Church of France in Berlin.In case you didn’t already realise it, in Germany, state-recognised churches can collect taxes from their members. In this article, we look at what the tax is, how much it costs, who is liable, and how you can stop paying it. What’s going on?Įxpats are often surprised to find they are unwittingly subject to church tax in Germany ( Kirchensteuer). Plenty of us have been there: shortly after completing your registration in Germany, you receive your first payslip, only to realise that the church has taken a chunk of your salary.

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