Do I have to pay German church tax?
Do I have to pay German church tax? Who has to pay the German church tax? Broadly speaking, anyone who is a member of a church that collects taxes is liable to pay the German church tax. For Germans who have been baptised, that's relatively simple to work out, but in the case of expats, it gets a little more complicated. Is tithing mandatory in Germany? "The payment of tithes, deriving from the biblical practice of sacred offerings and made compulsory by a synodal decree of 585, is held to be the oldest regular source of ecclesiastical revenue on German...