More than 200,000 German Roman Catholics formally left the Church
last year in a blow not just to its membership figures but to its
income.
Germans who belong to a designated Church pay an additional proportion of their income tax – between eight and nine per cent – towards its support. However, they can opt out of this by notifying the tax authorities that they no longer wish to do so. Increasing numbers of Roman Catholics have been taking this step in recent years, with the 2014 figure representing a 22 per cent jump from the previous year, from 178,805 to 217,716.
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/catholic.church.in.germany.hit.by.mass.withdrawals/59541.htm
Germans who belong to a designated Church pay an additional proportion of their income tax – between eight and nine per cent – towards its support. However, they can opt out of this by notifying the tax authorities that they no longer wish to do so. Increasing numbers of Roman Catholics have been taking this step in recent years, with the 2014 figure representing a 22 per cent jump from the previous year, from 178,805 to 217,716.
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/catholic.church.in.germany.hit.by.mass.withdrawals/59541.htm