Post by vikingeck on Aug 15, 2020 13:27:15 GMT
Back in 2018 jimwentzell posted this cover to the "National Fascist Institute for Social Security" ( google translation so blame them if not correct)
These stamps inscribed for this "Instituto National Fascista" turned up today in a 1940s junior album :
They are evidently Revenue and not Postage stamps, and I was tempted to post in the Revenue and Tax thread, but that thread seemed to refer to taxes on goods .
Now do these stamps represent workers contributions to the Social Security pensions fund from the Fascist era , possibly from the 1930s or 1940s. ?
The face values are quite considerable on these and values are unusual amounts, to say the least , L 47,30 L 96,40 etc
Italian postage stamps between 1930 and 1945 seldom have face values more than L 2 or L5 and it is not until 1945 that we see post war inflation producing postage stamps with values up to L100.The name FASCISTA would presumably have been dropped at the end of the war.
So did the worker pay these , or did the company pay them as a tax ?
(I recall as a worker in Britain in the late 1950s I had an National Insurance employment card into which my employer stuck an Insurance stamp each payday. The stamped card was held by the boss until the worker left or was dismissed. A sacked worker was said to have " Got his cards! "
These stamps were credited eventually to my pension fund and any sick pay. Later in life, as an employer, I had to record electronically my employees' and my contributions to their employment record and social security , but stamps had long disappeared. )
These stamps inscribed for this "Instituto National Fascista" turned up today in a 1940s junior album :
They are evidently Revenue and not Postage stamps, and I was tempted to post in the Revenue and Tax thread, but that thread seemed to refer to taxes on goods .
Now do these stamps represent workers contributions to the Social Security pensions fund from the Fascist era , possibly from the 1930s or 1940s. ?
The face values are quite considerable on these and values are unusual amounts, to say the least , L 47,30 L 96,40 etc
Italian postage stamps between 1930 and 1945 seldom have face values more than L 2 or L5 and it is not until 1945 that we see post war inflation producing postage stamps with values up to L100.The name FASCISTA would presumably have been dropped at the end of the war.
So did the worker pay these , or did the company pay them as a tax ?
(I recall as a worker in Britain in the late 1950s I had an National Insurance employment card into which my employer stuck an Insurance stamp each payday. The stamped card was held by the boss until the worker left or was dismissed. A sacked worker was said to have " Got his cards! "
These stamps were credited eventually to my pension fund and any sick pay. Later in life, as an employer, I had to record electronically my employees' and my contributions to their employment record and social security , but stamps had long disappeared. )
