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 regional churches
- Old Catholic Church
- Jewish religious communities
- Israelite religious communities (e.g. in Baden-Wuerttemberg)
- Free religious communities (e.g. in Baden, Wuerttemberg, 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-Wuerttemberg, you pay 8 percent, in the other states 9 percent of income tax or wage tax.
