How To Use Poll tax In A Sentence
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It was used to justify the introduction of the poll tax and to justify breaking up metropolitan counties.
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We already have files on people's tax details, mortgages and poll tax.
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Like the poll tax, the council tax would also take account of the number of adults in each household.
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After the poll tax was defeated in 1991 Scottish Militant Labour was launched as an open political party.
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They also got a new source of money, the council tax, to replace Mrs Thatcher's hated poll tax.
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The total is then distributed among local authorities on the basis of the number of people listed on the Poll Tax register.
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Mr Alton said that the poll tax meant many people had dodged electoral registers in a bid to avoid payment.
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The total is then distributed among local authorities on the basis of the number of people listed on the Poll Tax register.
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The Bill perpetuates all the anomalies, unfairness, regional variations and bureaucracy that made the poll tax unpopular.
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The poll tax had its critics but it was a lot fairer than the current system.
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We residents and poll tax payers of Everton have to endure little or no street lighting at all.
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After all, freeborn Englishmen, headed by Wat Tyler, had rebelled against a poll tax back in 1381, and the memory of it remained in popular legend.
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I sought a mandate from my constituents to oppose the poll tax and made it plain exactly what I would do.
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The council tax will retain the most objectionable parts of the poll tax - the head count tax on the individual.
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Because of the threat of poll tax capping this year, it was compelled to cut ￡5 million from its budget.
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The council says the withholding of poll tax payments and industrial action by treasury staff have made it difficult to collect money.
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It outlawed literacy tests and poll taxes as a way of assessing whether anyone was fit or unfit to vote.
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The council tax replaces the poll tax next April.
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In many ways, the poll tax embodies the attitude which dismisses our interdependence, and therefore our obligations towards each other.
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The poll tax cut across this, with its concept of a universal obligation.
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For years he refused to pay his poll tax, on the grounds that his money would fund an unjust government.
Times, Sunday Times
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Commentators instead emphasize that the poll tax is ultimately concerned with reducing local government revenue.
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If you are currently receiving a Rate rebate you will automatically be assessed for Poll Tax Benefit.
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A regressive tax, like the poll tax, takes proportionately more of a poor person's income.
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It has long been criticised as a regressive poll tax.
Times, Sunday Times
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A company which refused to make attachment of earnings deductions against one poll tax offender, was fined ￡200 by magistrates.
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These are also designed with an eye to reassuring those who did well out of the switch from rates to poll tax.
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Over the last hundred years, suffragettes, hunger marchers, miners, pro-fox hunters and campaigners against police brutality, the poll tax, fuel tax and the prohibition of cannabis have all congregated in Hyde Park.
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He proposed an amendment to the poll tax to take account of ability to pay and split the Conservative Party in 1988.
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Already the voices of protest are growing louder and scenes reminiscent of the poll tax rebellion may not be far away.
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The council tax replaces the poll tax next April.
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The poll tax will increase the numbers eligible for housing benefit.
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The poll tax was a creature of the Government.
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I pay by direct debit - it seems to lessen the pain of this unfair poll tax.
The Sun
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A company which refused to make attachment of earnings deductions against one poll tax offender, was fined ￡200 by magistrates.
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Their refusal to curtail spending plans and to increase the burden on poll tax payers is expected.
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First under the poll tax and now under the council tax, central control has replaced local democracy in determining spending.
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Ministers believed it was vital to dump the poll tax before the election.
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The poll tax has been a social, political and economic disaster of historic proportions.
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Darlington council has a sophisticated computer system to cope with the poll tax process.
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Like the poll tax, the council tax would also take account of the number of adults in each household.
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It was violation of the ability-to-pay principle that caused much of the public hostility to the poll tax.
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One would think that with the abolition of property requirements and poll taxes, the enfranchisement of people of color, women, and 18-year-olds, the battle for the right to vote had been won.
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Changes in community care were recently postponed because they would add to Poll Tax charges.
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The authors give warning that the Government has drawn the wrong conclusions from its experience of the poll tax.
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But the worst was an old bird who shouted at me about the poll tax and blamed me for Black Wednesday.
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Poll tax dodgers know the system will be scrapped in April and replaced by the Council Tax.
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There would have been no poll tax, race riots, rail privatisation and less industrial dereliction.
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But the Government has provided compensation allowances in income support payments equal to the average poll tax bill in each council area.
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Mr Clark says his department will be collecting poll tax arrears for years to come.
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At least for the moment, the Conservative government has wrecked its popularity by pursuing misconceived projects such as the poll tax.
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Less than four years ago, the House debated the Second Reading of the poll tax bill.
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We will abolish the poll tax Labour will abolish the poll tax immediately.
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Today's citizen may peruse the items on a poll tax bill with a jaundiced eye, but we tend to take for granted that a nice shiny fire engine will make its efficiently speedy way towards us should we ever need it to.
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The revolt will make the poll tax riots look like the teddy bears' picnic.
The Sun
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Ministers believed it was vital to dump the poll tax before the election.
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I urge all Opposition Members who have not paid their poll tax to do so without delay.
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The council says the withholding of poll tax payments and industrial action by treasury staff have made it difficult to collect money.
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What makes this tax a poll tax/capitation is that it is a per head tax on every person in the land ($750) which is then adjusted on income.
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We already have files on people's tax details, mortgages and poll tax.
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I remember in the latish 1980s my then cleaner telling me that her poll tax was higher than mine -- and knew then that the game was up for the controversial Thatcher local tax reform.
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Senior Tories pressed Michael Heseltine, the environment secretary, to discuss radical changes to the poll tax.
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The company has had to go back to its pre-poll tax database, known as the Historic Voters Roll.
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But the Government has provided compensation allowances in income support payments equal to the average poll tax bill in each council area.
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I am interested in whether the police national computer is linked with poll tax registers, electoral rolls and telephone numbers.
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The council says the withholding of poll tax payments and industrial action by treasury staff have made it difficult to collect money.
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The importance of the head count element in the property poll tax is most clearly shown in the proposals for the discounts.
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However, many people are living in abject poverty because of the poll tax.
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Thirty years later I can still hear the mastodons calling to one another, their cries muted behind the cacophony of mortgage repayments, phone bills, children's shoes and poll tax demands.
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A regressive tax, like the poll tax, takes proportionately more of a poor person's income.
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It was used to justify the introduction of the poll tax and to justify breaking up metropolitan counties.
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They embraced nuclear weapons, denounced non-payment of the poll tax, and voted for the expulsion of socialists from the party.
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A regressive tax, like the poll tax, takes proportionately more of a poor person's income.
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The company has had to go back to its pre-poll tax database, known as the Historic Voters Roll.
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If you are currently receiving a Rate rebate you will automatically be assessed for Poll Tax Benefit.
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It was used to justify the introduction of the poll tax and to justify breaking up metropolitan counties.
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The community charge or poll tax is open to two major criticisms.
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For the first time since the 1990 poll tax riots, the government has bowed to a street demo.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why should abolition not apply to the poll tax during what are allegedly its last two years?
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It was used to justify the introduction of the poll tax and to justify breaking up metropolitan counties.
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The table below contains all of the 116 distinct bynames found in the poll tax data, together with etymological notes on as many of them as I can identify.
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Why should abolition not apply to the poll tax during what are allegedly its last two years?
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I welcome the Secretary of State's announcement that the poll tax compensation of ￡700 million will not be clawed back.
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Unusually for a parliamentarian, his roots are sunk deep in the historical soil of extra-parliamentary rebellion, from the Chartists and the Tolpuddle Martyrs, to the Suffragettes and the anti-poll tax protesters.
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The poll tax was a very unpopular form of taxation.
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The Government is deliberately fleecing young people by charging them an outrageous poll tax on their first home.
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The poll tax registers, unlike the electoral registers, are updated monthly.
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But the worst was an old bird who shouted at me about the poll tax and blamed me for Black Wednesday.
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He was the leader of the Labour controlled council which came into conflict with the the Government over poll tax last year.
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I sought a mandate from my constituents to oppose the poll tax and made it plain exactly what I would do.
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• In 1989 Nicholas Ridley, the minister for the environment in the Conservative government, tried to defend the poll tax as "fair" on the grounds that "a duke would pay the same as a dustman".
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And he identified poll tax dodgers as part of the problem.
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The right hon. Gentleman was a keen supporter of the poll tax.
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The poll tax actions were neither new nor uncharacteristic.
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If you fall into this category and have a low income, you may be entitled to Poll Tax Benefit.
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I had borrowed one of Norris's big paramilitary-style fawn shirts to wear as a jacket over my anti Poll Tax T-shirt.
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From the suffragettes to the poll tax the only kind of protest that appears to get noticed is violent protest.
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They also got a new source of money, the council tax, to replace Mrs Thatcher's hated poll tax.
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He claimed he was inside for not paying his poll tax.
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The council tax will retain the most objectionable parts of the poll tax - the head count tax on the individual.
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I pay by direct debit - it seems to lessen the pain of this unfair poll tax.
The Sun
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Senior Tories pressed Michael Heseltine, the environment secretary, to discuss radical changes to the poll tax.
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He proposed an amendment to the poll tax to take account of ability to pay and split the Conservative Party in 1988.
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I urge all Opposition Members who have not paid their poll tax to do so without delay.
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The poll tax has been a social, political and economic disaster of historic proportions.
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Avoiding the poll tax will be costly in terms of universal political citizenship.
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Unlike the BBC it is not state-sponsored and receives no licence fee; it is not bound to objectivity by a Charter that in return for a pledge of objectivity gives it its increasingly anomalistic and untenably privileged position (in this era of multi-channel broadcasting) of being featherbedded by what is in effect a poll tax on every household in Britain with a television set.
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The poll tax was a creature of the Government.
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For years he refused to pay his poll tax, on the grounds that his money would fund an unjust government.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you fall into this category and have a low income, you may be entitled to Poll Tax Benefit.
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The poll tax registers, unlike the electoral registers, are updated monthly.
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He proposed an amendment to the poll tax to take account of ability to pay and split the Conservative Party in 1988.
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This included the poll tax and changes in health provision, unemployment and housing benefits and education.
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A regressive tax, like the poll tax, takes proportionately more of a poor person's income.
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Ministers believed it was vital to dump the poll tax before the election.
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The council tax replaces the poll tax next April.
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Avoiding the poll tax will be costly in terms of universal political citizenship.
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The licence fee is a form of poll tax and for many low paid/unwaged it represents the sum equivalent to that spent on survival for a week or more.
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The lack of accountability was the reason which drove the Government to introduce the poll tax.
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But it is hard to blame Labour's 1992 defeat on poll tax-related non-registration.
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Darlington council has a sophisticated computer system to cope with the poll tax process.
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The poll tax revolts are a warning of the fury that changes to local authority finances can trigger.
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For the first time since the 1990 poll tax riots, the government has bowed to a street demo.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just as the poll tax impost jarred on an historically raw nerve, so will the ban on fox-hunting.
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The Bill perpetuates all the anomalies, unfairness, regional variations and bureaucracy that made the poll tax unpopular.
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Why should abolition not apply to the poll tax during what are allegedly its last two years?
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Is it not true that the Government want to divert that money to keep down the poll tax in Wandsworth and Westminster?
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Poll tax evasion is thought to be the main reason for the falling numbers.
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I welcome the Secretary of State's announcement that the poll tax compensation of ￡700 million will not be clawed back.
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As for his assertion that they would have replaced poll tax with a local income tax if it was feasible - nonsense!
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The poll tax cut across this, with its concept of a universal obligation.
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Roman citizens paid little tax, but provincials paid a property tax and a poll tax amounting to 10 or 15 percent of income.
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Avoiding the poll tax will be costly in terms of universal political citizenship.
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They embraced nuclear weapons, denounced non-payment of the poll tax, and voted for the expulsion of socialists from the party.
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Ministers believed it was vital to dump the poll tax before the election.
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He proposed an amendment to the poll tax to take account of ability to pay and split the Conservative Party in 1988.
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The council tax replaces the poll tax next April.
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It allowed major civil rights violations, poll taxes among others, and created one of the most corrupt governments and judiciaries in early American history.
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The cash was promised to local authorities in last year's budget to ease the impact of poll tax bills.
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We have the poll tax because there is no such thing as the sovereignty of Parliament.
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The council tax Bill exists because the poll tax was the disaster that so many hon. Members said it would be.
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The extra cash, however, will only partly soften the impact of the introduction of the poll tax next year.
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Nothing destroys governmental authority more than an unenforceable law, as the poll tax demonstrated.
