Strange Taxes Around The World ( From Bachelor to Breast )

 

There is no such thing as a good tax.

                                             Winston Churchill

1- The Bachelor Tax ;

• Firstly, it was introduced in 9 AD by Augustus. It was introduced to uplift marriage among them.
• The 'Lex Papia Poppaea' and married couples with no children were taxed.
• In 1695, the English parliament surpassed The Marriage Duty Act or Registration Tax, which imposed a tax on bachelors over 25. The Tax used to be mainly a revenue-raising process for conflict in France. The Tax raised little income and used to be abolished in 1706.
• In 1821 - $1 tax on unmarried men by the US State of Missouri.
• In 1921 - $3 tax on all bachelors by the US State of Montana.
• In 1934, California proposed a $25 tax, but it was never enacted.
• In 1927, Benito Mussolini enacted the bachelor tax but was quashed in 1943.

2- The Urine Tax ;

• In ancient Rome, Tax was imposed on human urine by Emperor NERO.
• Urine was used to clean leather and wash clothes because it has ammonia (NH3) and even brushes their teeth.
• Then, some people thought it was a business, and then they started collecting urine from houses and used it to process them and then sell them in the markets.
• When the Government looked at the profit of this business, they started imposing taxes on the collectors of urine.
• So, in this way, the Government earned a lot of money from the urine of the people of their own nation.
  
  
  

Pecunia non olet

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Pecunia non olet is a Latin saying that means "money does not stink." The phrase is ascribed to the Roman emperor Vespasian.

3- The Fat Tax ; ( IN INDIA )

Fat Tax is imposed on fattening food, beverages, and overweight individuals. It is reviewed as an example of PIGOVIAN TAXATION( A Pigovian tax on any market activity that generates negative externalities. The Tax is intended to correct an undesirable or inefficient market outcome by being set equal to the external marginal cost of the negative externalities. Social price includes private cost and external cost. Wikipedia).

• Kerala is the first state in India that lays an impost on junk food sold in restaurants.
• 14.5%  was imposed on junk foods in 2016.
• This Tax has its own benefits and flaws. As this Tax has a check on obesity, on the other hand, it is creating a vast difference between the rich and poor. This is the simple pleasure for the poor that has been snatched from them.
• Gujarat has also been thinking about imposing this Tax. The decided percentage is the same as Kerala ( 14.5% ). 
• Some studies have babbled that increasing even 1% per ounce tax will decrease 25% on drinks and canned items.

4- The Beard Tax ;

• This Tax was imposed by Peter The Great in 1698 on men who had a beard.
• In the Culture of Russia, a beard was a symbol of manhood like in India as of now, and it would be a misdeed to remove it or shave it off.
• This all started after the grand tour to Western Europe, and it became a controvery=sy because many of them had a tough time adjusting to it.
• When he returned from the tour and attended the reception where many senior govt officials and army officials were also attending, he pulled out many razors and began shaving everyone's beard.
• At that time, the clean shave was in fashion in Europe, and to make Russia more like Europe, he imposed Beard Tax with an exception to priests.
• It was imposed for 74 years and discarded in 1772.

5 - The Breast Tax ; ( In India )

• In Travancore, females of the lower class had to pay taxes to cover their breasts. Even in public places, they were not allowed to cover their breasts, and if they wanted to do so, they had to pay a tax named "BREAST TAX."
• This Tax was solicited only to the females of the lower classes.
• Classes like Nadar, Ajuga. There is a story of NANGELI, the warrior ( which I will discuss someday later).
• It was abolished in 1924.

“The power to tax is the power to destroy.”
― John Marshall

SOURCES:       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNZWx6Yp6IU                                           

                               https://www.financialexpress.com/money/income-tax/from-bachelor-tax-to-tattoo-tax-worlds-11-most-weird-taxes-you-will-be-surprised-to-know/1272263/        

                                                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0A5ncoMZBU                                                                   https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/fun-facts/7-crazy-tax

https://blog.cheapism.com/weird-tax-laws/

                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64CfuNxzKpg   

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gdn_wVXS40    

             https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7036206/          

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