Germany has a church tax‽

Yepp. You need to denounce the church to stop paying that tax.

Can you do one for Austria please? Shouldn't be that different anyways since we copy all your laws lol

Sure 😃. I am doing it as a sideproject and sometimes struggling to make time for it. But I really like the path of the journey 😉. I will put on my list.

thx!

This is a great tool! Very interesting to compare with here. If you’re making a list of other countries to do (and you fancy a challenge!), how about France?

I think the France tax system is not progressiv (tax rate increases with the salary) right?

I’m not 100% sure - this is why I’d be interested to find out!

And yes, I’ve lived and worked in France for 15 years, of which six have been in the civil service… I feel somewhat ashamed! :)

Finland had a massive denouncement of the church when someone just made an online tool that let you do it automatically.

Although I have to say that money really does get spent rather well here, as there's no massive Catholic churches that suck in money and the church we have does a lot of charity work and gives food.

If people could've just changed that to go to a secular institution, I think they would have. No-one really cared that much about the 1% church tax.

As I dislike the idea of making vulnerable people sit through indoctrination to get food, as some church food aid programs require you to sit through a service before you can get the aid.

It's like a Flat Earther going to get confirmation to their whacky world views from hungry hungry hobos by dangling food in front of them.

Coole Sache, danke!

Sadly we need to go to a public office (which is apparently hard to get a date at) and pay like 30 bucks

Church isnt that indoctrinating here and of course has some positives (like creating a community, supporting local clubs) but idk if you should be forced enough into it as they honestly get enough money

Well the church here is suuuuuuuuuper mild in comparison to most other countries as Scandinavia is super secular, but I just oppose it ideologically.

I think a junkie I talked to said it's just a basic service, a couple of hymns and a sermon by a Finnish Evangelical Lutheran pastor, so pretty airy-fairy "we should aim to do good" and none of that "sin and you'll go to hell" shit. Still, the idea bothers me slightly, even if the practice doesn't.

I had no idea taxes were so high in Germany. Is there a stepped system like in the US?

It is a progressive system: with the salary increase the tax rate also increases.

In Germany the churches get extra money from the state for their charitable work and social services.