Tax on trees was atax imposed on the owners of fruit trees in the USSR byJoseph Stalin's government in 1944.[1] The tax made it expensive to have trees on a farm, and had theunintended consequence of causing a mass felling of trees by Soviet farmers. This subsequently led to shortage of fruit.[citation needed]
The idea was proposed by the MinisterArseny Zverev, and Stalin failed to foresee the problems it would produce. The tax was repealed in 1954 byGeorgy Malenkov, when taxes were reduced by 60 percent for farmers.[2]
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