[afraidfortherepublic]

Are Lutherans also subject to the church tax?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Si, senor...

[Mrs. Don-o]

The German govt. will definitely collect taxes for Catholics and Lutherans and I think other legally registered churches, too. The German Catholic hierarchy has shriveling congregations and is rolling in cash.

Historically there were kinda sorta legitimate reasons for this tax. Various German governments in the past appropriated --- confiscated, stole --- church properties, and the govt. offered reimbursement in terms of tax revenues.

But the result is what we see: fat-cat hierarchs living like princes, without faith themselves, and losing the faithful in droves. "The Faithful Departed."

[2tipsea]

Everyone is subject to the German “church” tax, it’s a percentage of each person’s income and they simply check which category they prefer. Catholic is the biggest, then Lutheran, but there are also categories for atheists and some sort of greenie-gaia-transcendentalists, or maybe those are lumped into one category!