(2023) Who is required to pay church tax?

If you are a member of one of the following religious communities, you must pay church tax:

• Roman Catholic Church
• Protestant Churches
• Old Catholic Church
• Jewish Communities
• Israelite Religious Communities (e.g. in Baden-Württemberg)
• Free Religious Communities (e.g. in Baden, Württemberg, Mainz, Offenbach, Palatinate)
• French Church in Berlin (Huguenot Church)
• Mennonite Congregation in Hamburg-Altona
• Unitarian Religious Community of Free Protestants in Rhineland-Palatinate

The amount of church tax depends on your place of residence. If you live in Bavaria or Baden-Württemberg, you pay 8 percent, in other states 9 percent of income tax or wage tax.