Poll Tax

anneasquith | 22:41 Tue 01st Apr 2014 | Society & Culture

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whiskeryron

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// ToraToraTora well I have to pay for workshy scum, so we all pay for things we'd rather not. // Not a very nice way to talk about ''call me Dave & his mates''

23:36 Tue 01st Apr 2014

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naomi24

Jayen, //I thought the poll tax meant that the cost of providing local services was shared equally between the number of people eligible to use those services?//

I think that was the general idea.

DaisyNonna

Watford Gap. Does that mean it is lacking?

naomi24

Sorry, *Jayne*.

joggerjayne

So the system now is based on property values?

So pensioners, whose houses happen to have gone up in value, have to subsidise high earning London commuters who happen to live in smaller houses?

Or the pensioners are forced to move house?

murraymints

The tax depends on the size of property and is based on two adults occupying...reduction for sole occupancy..exemptions for students, student nurses and persons with various incapacities..benefit for unemployed and low incomes....

Milvus

Good description Naomi, that's how I saw it

ToraToraTora

It was called the community charge, end of.

murraymints

Not in Scotland..it was, when first introduced , poll tax.

anneasquith

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sigh.........................

Mamyalynne

Introduction of the Community Charge (the Poll Tax):

The Community Charge ("Poll Tax") was a new system of taxation introduced in Scotland in 1989 and England and Wales in 1990 by the then ruling Conservative government. The Community Charge replaced the "Rates" - a system of tax where a certain amount was charged by the local council depending on the rental value of a house - with a flat rate charge paid by every adult, earning the nickname "Poll Tax" as a result. The value of the charge was set by the local authority and was intended, as was the Rates, to fund each local council’s provision of the infrastructure and services needed by each community.

Mamyalynne

'Poll Tax' was a name used in a Historic sense.

Sam1960

anne, when you get the chance .... please have a look at the then Secretary of State of Scotland's "George Younger's" roll in the introduction of the "poll tax" in Scotland before the rest of the UK.

ToraToraTora

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Charge
it was called the "poll tax" by those that innexplicably opposed it. 1 Person pays for 1 persons worth of resources, genius! who but those who wanted to avoid paying could oppose the principle? Only those with blind hatred, so blind in fact that they cannot see the obvious.

naomi24

What it was called is irrelevant. To charge each household on the basis of the number of people using the services provided was fair - wasn't it?

Everhelpful

According to Wiki: Poll Taxes were levied by the governments of John of Gaunt in the 14th Century, Charles II in the 17th and Margaret Thatcher in the 20th Century.