Yes. There is historical examples of it, for example in colonial Canada, it was illegal for (I'm vaguely remembering the ages, but it's close) men over 16 and women over 14 to be unmarried, you'd be fined every year you weren't.
In the modern day and age, where there's at least an empty gesture towards caring about freedom even in the more traditionalist regimes, that kind of law would be quite abhorred, but it has existed in the past, and likely will in the future.
WTF is a bachelor tax? Pay the state to compensate being unmarried?
What IGN said, but in this case, it's specifically unmarried men he's talking about, not both men and women.
Yes. There is historical examples of it, for example in colonial Canada, it was illegal for (I'm vaguely remembering the ages, but it's close) men over 16 and women over 14 to be unmarried, you'd be fined every year you weren't.
In the modern day and age, where there's at least an empty gesture towards caring about freedom even in the more traditionalist regimes, that kind of law would be quite abhorred, but it has existed in the past, and likely will in the future.
Tax incentives exist for married people in the west, so there is actually still a bachelor tax, just applied to women as well.