On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:47:31AM +0200, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: > an example: germany is currently waging war against scientology, an
I'm not tracking the press if I can avoid it, is this thing still pursued seriously? > organised cult that tries to include powerful people and get them > addicted to bizarre beliefs in order to extort money out of them. at > the same time, the german state collects taxes from its citizens and > pays them out to older organised cults (you can choose protestant or > catholic). That's church tax, which you can evade by leaving church (notice that your spouse must, too, at least if you're not taxed separately). However, bishops are paid directly from taxes. Which is one of the reasons I'm considering severely limiting my tax exposure in Germany. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
