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by dx034 3166 days ago
The first one is a fee for TV and I haven't heard of anyone who needed an accountant for this. The second and third are health insurance which you should have in every country. The German system of paying for that is not more complicated than some single payer systems such as the UK (NI contributions).

Church tax is automatically deducted with the other taxes. It's collected alongside other taxes and you don't have to file separately for this.

The corporate tax code is certainly not the easiest but common for most countries of the world.

I'd totally agree that German taxes are complicated but the number of taxes to pay says nothing about the complexity. Neither does it say anything about digitisation.