Taxation in the Soviet Union

tax imposed by Soviet bloc countries on people without children

thumb|350px|"Grain requisitioning" by Ivan Vladimirov ', also transliterated ( , short for , ), alternatively referred to in English as grain requisitioning', was a policy and campaign of confiscation of grain and other agricultural products from peasants at nominal fixed prices according to specified quotas (the noun , , and the verb , refer to the partition of the requested total amount as obligations from the suppliers).

tax imposed on the owners of fruit trees in the USSR by Joseph Stalin's government in 1944

kind of revenue stamps used in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s

thumb|"The Food Tax is the Flywheel of the State Mechanism" Prodnalog (, from продовольственный налог, prodovolstvenniy nalog; "food tax";) is the Russian word for a tax on food production, paid in kind in the Soviet Union, and sometimes known as "the tax in kind". Prodnalog replaced prodrazvyorstka (introduced in 1919) and was introduced by a Decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on March 21, 1921. Separate decrees were issued for taxes on particular categories of produce: bread, milk, eggs, meat, oil, etc., as well as on hay, wool, and tobacco. After paying the tax, the peasa