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Between Fiscal, Ideological, and Social Dilemmas: The Soviet ‘Bachelor Tax’ and Post-war Tax Reform, 1941–1962

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  • Kristy Ironside

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This article examines the ‘tax on bachelors, singles, and small families of the USSR’. The tax was introduced in 1941 to boost the birth rate and expanded in 1944 to finance the state’s benefits offered to mothers and children. The Ministry of Finance eventually moved away from its support for the regressive and inefficient bachelor tax and explored other tax-based strategies to boost the birth rate and support families. However, it was constrained in its reform efforts, both by Khrushchev and by ideas about the appropriate role of taxes as the Soviet Union progressed away from crisis and towards communism.

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  • Kristy Ironside, 2017. "Between Fiscal, Ideological, and Social Dilemmas: The Soviet ‘Bachelor Tax’ and Post-war Tax Reform, 1941–1962," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 69(6), pages 855-878, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:69:y:2017:i:6:p:855-878
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2017.1344189
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