Field help: (2021) Religion
Religion

Enter the church/religious community you belonged to in the year 2021.

If you have changed the religious community, select the religious community to which you belonged in December 2021.

If you officially left a church/religious community in the year 2021, select the religious community to which you last belonged and specify the months during which you were a member of this community. Church tax will not be due for the remaining months of that year.

If you did not belong to any religious community entitled to collect church tax during the whole year or if you lived abroad in the tax year 2021 and therefore do not need to pay church tax, select "No religion / not subject to church tax".

If your religious community/church is not included in the list, although it is entitled to collect church tax, select "Other religious community subject to church tax" and then enter the name of the religious community in the field which appears. In this case, Lohnsteuer kompakt will calculate the church tax in the same way as that for the main religious communities/churches.

Religion code
The religion code is automatically calculated by Lohnsteuer kompakt, based on the religion selected. If you do not belong to any religious community, the abbreviation VD will be entered. The following abbreviations are used for various religious communities/churches:

• Evangelical (protestant) EV
• Roman Catholic RK
• Old Catholic church AK
• Evangelical reformed RF
• French reformed FR
• Free religious community, Alzey FA
• Free religious community, Baden FB
• Free religious community, Palatinate FG
• Free religious community, Mainz FM
• Free religious community, Offenbach/M. FS
• Jewish religious community, Baden IB
• Jewish religious community, Wuerttemberg IW
• Jewish communities, Bavaria IS
• Jewish religious tax (Kultussteuer), Hessen IL
• Jewish synagogue community, Saar IS
• Jewish religious tax (Kultussteuer), Frankfurt (Hessen) IS
• Jewish community, Koblenz and Bad Kreuznach IS
• Jewish religious tax (Kultussteuer), North Rhine-Westphalia JD
• Jewish religious tax (Kultussteuer), Hamburg JH