V. I.

Lenin

Draft Decision for the C.P.C. on Direct Taxes [1]

§ 1. 1) A commission to be instructed, within one week, to further examine the question of. first, the possibility of
repealing local monetary taxes and collecting accurate data both for the
Petrograd and Moscow gubernias and, if possible, for other gubernias; second, the necessity of preparing and carrying out
simultaneously both the repeal of monetary taxes and the changeover from
the surplus-appropriation system to the tax in kind.

§ 2. 2) The People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs to be directed to apply to the Presidium of the All-Russia Central
Executive Committee requesting the latter to collect from all local
executive committees information and material on all questions mentioned in
§ 1 for the Congress of Soviets.

§ 3. 3) The People’s Commissariat for Finance to be instructed to submit to the Council of People’s Commissars a draft decision
on questions listed in § 1 depending on the decision of the
commission.

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Notes:
[1]
Lenin’s draft was adopted by the Council of People’s Commissars on
November 30, 1920.