A bachelor tax is a tax imposed on bachelors.

The following year the state supreme court ruled the "bachelor tax" and another poll tax applicable only to men to be unconstitutional.

Preference in employment was shown towards fathers of large families and a bachelor tax was imposed on single men to induce them to marry.

The resm-i mücerred was a bachelor tax in the Ottoman Empire, related to the resm-i çift and the resm-i bennâk.