Phoenixpower
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I admit, this caught my eye: "Church Tax?"
Yeah, we have all sort of tax 
The calculation in Germany is as follows (according to that calculation programme online - can't say it via payslip as it is seven years ago that I received a German payslip and when I was at home I actually felt a bit irritated with the heck of a lot of numbers which are on there).
However the deduction is as follows:
Salary from Employer 2500 Euro
Deductions:
Salary tax: Euro 342,00
Solidaritätszuschlag: to be honest I just had to look up what that actually is and it says online:
Solidarity Tax: Another special tax of the German tax system is the solidarity surcharge "Solidaritaetszuschlag". This surcharge is levied on every resident to contribute with the enormous costs of rebuilding the former communist eastern part of the country. This surcharge has a rate of 5.5 percent of the amount of the personal income or of company tax.
Therefore they charge me Euro 18,81 per month for that
Church tax: Euro 27,36
Health insurance: Euro 205,00
Care insurance: Euro 30,63
Retirement insurance: Euro 248,75
Unemployment insurance: Euro 37,50
Salary after tax: Euro 1.589,95
The annoyance is I can't drop out of church insurance as I work in a profession (children's homes in Germany) where most employers work a lot with religious belief and traditions and demand that you belong to one of the churches if you apply for work with them, so I have to pay that tax....
Also often employers deduct food costs from your salary when you eat with the kids you work with during their meal times. Most of the time its up to us if we do so or not but the one employer who paid me very little in the past tried to force us to eat there to be able to pay us even less, which caused a lot of anger from staff...I was very glad when I had left that particular employer...
it explains reg. that tax online:
Church Tax: The Church Tax "Kirchensteuer" is a special tax imposed by German tax system. Church tax is a tax imposed on members of some religious congregations in Germany and another countries. About 70% of church revenues do come from church tax. The origins of the "Kirchensteuer" date back to the early part of the 19th century when the churches were granted the right to levy taxes by Prussia partly as a way of compensating them for property which had been sequestered to help pay for the Napoleonic wars.
If you haven't religion, you may say no. But you should know that the tax office can at some moment follow you and ask you to prove that you haven't religion. This is relatively easy for Germans. They normally follow a formal process to step out of their church and have documents to prove it.
edited to add:
Sometimes pay increase suck at home, as depending on the increase it can mean that the netto salary will be lower than it was before a pay increase
But in general I am very pleased to start with that salary...as the last time I worked in that county I ended up at an employer where I only earned 1084 after tax, which was less than I had earned from my employer before that one during my apprenticeship...in general I think she wanted to get me for cheaper but came a big step towards my demand as she knew I won't be coming if she offers me too less (as we simply have many vacancies at present and so I was not dependent on her in the current climate at home....which is different to the last time where the employer paid very little as jobs at that time were rare).
< Message edited by Phoenixpower -- 5/13/2011 4:21:18 PM >
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as quite frankly I am not happy about my regular reordering of my ID cards, considering they aren't that cheap either, to reorder 
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