International trading tax stamp

International trading tax stamps were issued by the Posledgol Central Commission of VTsIK, the Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily and, later, by the Soviet Philatelic Association.

[1] This practice was continued under the USSR, and in December 1923, some tsarist insurance stamp [Wikidata] issues were subject to export surcharge made by the Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily.

For example, one of the editors stated in Sovetskii Kollektsioner: Alas, among philatelists there are several speculators, forgers, dishonest exchangers and other trading knights, who make a source of personal profit from philately.

However, this of course does not diminish the cultural significance of philately as such.In another article, a member advocated the VOK from blaming that it was "an organisation of private traders and consisted of speculators, disfranchised persons and similar elements which, of course do not merit the slightest trust.

"[3] In response, the author argued: To give so shameful a characterisation of a social organisation which, as is known, operates on the basis of rules set down by the NKVD, and which does not have a single disfranchised member, but in fact has an impressive party and komsomol stratum, is possible only in the presence of [an] ample supply of nerve and cynicism.Using appropriately overprinted stamps, the philatelic tax system existed at least until 1940.