Church
Record number of Church tax
It sounds like a contradiction: The members of the Christian churches in Germany have been falling for years. Nevertheless, the income from the Church tax have achieved in the past year, a record high.
The Archdiocese of Munich is the richest in Germany
The reason for the record revenue in the good state of the economy and the increase in wages, according to the Federal Statistical office. So 2015 will be flowed to the two churches 11,46 billion euros, reported the “Bild”newspaper. In the year before it was 10,77 billion euros. The Catholic Church has received in 2015, a slightly larger proportion than the Evangelical, namely around EUR 6.1 billion.
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Much of the funding via taxes
The Church tax is generally nine percent of the wage and salary tax, in some States, eight per cent. This statutory levy will have to pay working members of the Church. You will be collected by the tax office. The two large Christian churches in Germany to Fund itself to tax a good three-quarters of the Church.
The emergence of the Church tax goes to the developments at the beginning of the 19th century. Century. Decisive is the so-called reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803. After that, the secular princes undertook to provide for the maintenance of the Church and the clergy. Social and political changes that ultimately led to the introduction of the Church tax, which was regulated in the Weimar Constitution of 1919.
fab/stu (epd, kna, dpa)