Poll tax (Great Britain)
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The Community Charge, colloquially known as the poll tax, was a system of local taxation introduced by Margaret Thatcher's government, whereby each taxpayer was taxed the same fixed sum, with the prec
People demonstrating against the poll tax on 31 March 1990
Margaret Thatcher
The 1990 Conservative Party leadership election was called on 14 November 1990 following the decision of Michael Heseltine, former defence and environment secretary, to challenge Margaret Thatcher, th
Poll tax (Great Britain)
…Wales an estimated £1.2 billion went uncollected in the first year of the Charge. The tax proved to be a fatal blow to Thatcher's premiership. In the 1990 Conservative Party leadership election, she lost on the first ballot to three contenders who all vowed to abolish the Charge. Its replacement with the Council Tax, based on property valuation…
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Douglas HURD, British State Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, during a plenary session in Strasbourg in july 1992
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