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Church in Germany
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Analysis

The German Church’s taxing problem

A record church tax haul in 2022 is not all it seems.

Luke Coppen
Jul 03, 2023
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The Catholic Church in Germany received a record 6.848 billion euros in church tax in 2022.

But that didn’t appear to be a cause for celebration for the country’s bishops’ conference, which released the results without fanfare June 30.

A pile of euro banknotes Images Money via Wikimedia (CC BY 2.0).  

The announcement came just days after the news that a r…

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