STATE TAXES AND COMPULSORY DUES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500420167-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 167
• Publication Date: March 5, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2001/09/11 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000500420167-8
UEC 1951 -- '"
U.S. Officlials Only
CONNF I DENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT 25X1X
DATE DISTR.,j/1') f?/~ ;54
NO. OF PAGES 1
NO. OF ENCLS.
SUPP. TO
REPORT NO.
1. "A worker in Bulgaria pays today an income tax
(obszt dohod) amounting to five per cent of his actual earnings.
2. 'IIn addition, there is a bachelor's tIax (ergenski danak) amounting to five to
seven per cent of actual earnings. This tax is paid by both men and women
after they reach their 21st birthday When a person marries no ta:: is levied
for a period of one year. If during that first year a child is born both
parents start paying the tax again, but only at five per cent; if there is
no child the tax is seven per cent, which is what single persons pay. If a
couple has three children, the tax is no longer levied.
3. "No extra receipt is given by cashiers for either the income or the bachelor's
tax. Cashiers are supposed to deduct these taxes from workers' paychecks.
4. "Another general tax is the tax of 'work obligations' (trudova owinnost danak)
amounting to 0.25% of earnings. Lriginal translation has 0 25 . This tax
is paid in money by urban people. Rural people work instead for ten days a
month at public works. Factory cashiers deduct this tax also.
"Besides State taxes, the worker in RLlgaria pays ORPO Lunion7 dues - one per
ccrlt of his earnings-c d the dues fo other organizations to which he belongs.
Further he must subscribe to various papers and periodicals It is obligatory
to subscribe to TRUD (, lev per month). Workers who oe.Lung to various Communist
organizations also must subscribe to the papers published by those organizations."
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