Church admission: Declaration
A church entry or re-entry must be declared to the competent authority.
The employer automatically learns of the church entry by calling up the electronic wage tax deduction characteristics (ELStAM), which are stored at the Federal Central Tax Office (BZSt).
The responsibility lies with the relevant parish.
- Identity card or passport
- if available: baptismal certificate
- for married persons and persons living in civil partnership: marriage certificate or civil partnership certificate
Fee: free of charge
Deadlines may have to be observed.
Lower Saxony Ministry of Finance
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
