Tax on trees
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Tax on trees is a tax imposed in USSR in 1944 on fruit trees and even shrubs.
This has the cobra effect, namely the mass felling of trees by Soviet farmers, which subsequently led to shortage of fruit.
Some say that the idea proposed by the Minister Arseny Zverev. Stalin also did not see in this any hidden dangers.
The tax was repealed in 1954, by Malenkov, when taxes were reduced by 60 per cent for farmers. [1]
