en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax


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It's a state and church collusion thing
Been going on for a very long time

No wonder these religious organisations are so wealthy collecting €9.2 billion off their punters via blackmail.

Swiss government in cahoots with the blackmailing churches by taking the tax out of the wages at source,thought the Swiss were meant to be more progressive and not medieval.

According to this forum they take the tax even if your not part of the catholic church and you have to claim it back if you didn't declare on the form no religion.

www.englishforum.ch/finance-banking-taxa...ic-church-taxes.html

Heaven pay on the door or book in advance for VIP access

The Swiss could vote to get rid of it if they wanted, note its not mandatory if you do not stipulate religion, also it's not all cantons.

I'm surprised they still put up with it tbh

I remember my daughter telling me about the church tax when she'd been on a student exchange to Germany. It seems an odd state of affairs to me.

not really, Tithe its there choice if people want to do that, donate there income to the church or any church what so ever

I might have got the wrong end of the stick, but she gave me the impression the tax was obligatory to people who want to worship in the churches.

Just goes to show the link between the church and state is very close in those countries.

Is it a choice when non payers will be excommunicated and ostracised by the church they are a member of.

Quote-
"Unless they pay the religious tax, Catholics will no longer be allowed receive sacraments, except before death, or work in the church and its schools or hospitals.

Without a "sign of repentance before death, a religious burial can be refused," the decree states. Opting out of the tax would also bar people from acting as godparents to Catholic children."


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Black Cloud wrote:
Provided it is by choice, however it looks like that's not the case in various places

andyh wrote:
I've got a German friend who told me it was 10 % of your pay went to the Roman Catholic church, whether you want to or not . so he told them to get fucked and left the country....that was in the early 80's

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax#Germany

Black Cloud wrote:
Hmm maybe it has changed since the 80's in Germany looking at space bandits link.
eg- 'The church tax is only paid by members of the respective church. People who are not members of a church tax-collecting denomination do not have to pay it.'

If its always been that way perhaps some people don't realise they can claim exemption.

andyh wrote:
And also it was paying Israel back for the Holocaust, etc that the tax payer has to fork out

Black Cloud wrote:
Might make them think twice about carrying out the sick and twisted things they did in the second world war.

Companies like Kodak,hugo boss,Volkswagen,Ford,Standard Oil,Chase bank,IBM,Random House publishing,Bayer,Siemens,banks,royalty and catholic church should have paid!