Childless Russians can be taxed
In Russia, it was proposed to introduce childlessness tax. It is assumed that the funds that will be able to collect, will send for the needs of children raised in orphanages and social shelters. So, according to the authors of the initiative, it will be possible to achieve the triumph of justice.
About the legislative initiative today reports "Russian Public Initiative." It is assumed that quite a large number of people may become taxpayers for childlessness. between the ages of 20 and 50.
The author of the public initiative explains that keeping children in orphanages at the expense of the state is not entirely correct from ethical and moral points of view.
At the same time, in Russia there is a significant (about 17%) stratum of women and men who are in reproductive age, live together, some even are married, but the birth of a child is not decided. It is their means and should be paid for the maintenance of children in orphanages.
The proposal still has the character of a public initiative, but if it collects many signatures, state bodies, in particular, the State Duma, will be obliged to consider the initiative at the federal legislative level.
The tax on childlessness is not a novelty, our country has already “dealt with” it. This tax was introduced in the USSR in 1941. It was paid by childless men - married and unmarried, women who were married and had no children. I had to transfer up to 6% of the state salary.
But then not only childless, but also small families paid. So, the parents of one child paid up to 50 rubles a year, two children - 25 rubles a year. Only those who had three or more children were exempted from the tax. Benefits were given only to newlyweds and then for a year after the wedding. Then they had to either give birth to a child, or start paying 6% of their salaries each. The tax was abolished only in 1992.
In January 2013, Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov had already come forward with a proposal to return the Soviet tax to modern Russian society. A year ago, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev spoke out against this initiative and assured that so far the state does not plan to impose taxes on people who have not got children.
Earlier, such taxes were introduced in ancient Rome. In the history of Bulgaria were noted (at the beginning of the last century) and Italy, where, under Benito Mussolini, they also imposed a tax on bachelors (a tax on childlessness).