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<blockquote data-quote="jay hay-char" data-source="post: 1336091" data-attributes="member: 116810"><p>By all means <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>This is monumental thread drift, but I was once organising a secondment for an employee to work in Germany for a period of five years. She had a degree in German which she'd acquired about 15 years previously and in the course of which she'd spent a year working in Germany. When we were arranging things, I told her in no uncertain terms to register her religion as "Atheist" because there's a Church Tax on employees in Germany, and I thought she might avoid it if she said she was an unbeliever. She duly did this, only to get a letter from the German Tax Authorities a few weeks later informing her that their records showed that she had worked in Germany before, that they knew she was a Roman Catholic and that they would be taxing her accordingly. Efficient or what? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>Incidentally, we're talking serious money, here. Church Tax revenues in Germany were about 8 or 9 billion Euro in 2010, according to Mr Wiki's Pedia <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jay hay-char, post: 1336091, member: 116810"] By all means :) This is monumental thread drift, but I was once organising a secondment for an employee to work in Germany for a period of five years. She had a degree in German which she'd acquired about 15 years previously and in the course of which she'd spent a year working in Germany. When we were arranging things, I told her in no uncertain terms to register her religion as "Atheist" because there's a Church Tax on employees in Germany, and I thought she might avoid it if she said she was an unbeliever. She duly did this, only to get a letter from the German Tax Authorities a few weeks later informing her that their records showed that she had worked in Germany before, that they knew she was a Roman Catholic and that they would be taxing her accordingly. Efficient or what? :D Incidentally, we're talking serious money, here. Church Tax revenues in Germany were about 8 or 9 billion Euro in 2010, according to Mr Wiki's Pedia :eek: [/QUOTE]
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