It was Margaret Thatcher's biggest political misjudgement - and brought her career as prime minister to an ignominious end. The poll tax (or community charge) was supposed to make local council ...

In the spring of 1990 Margaret Thatcher introduced the Community Charge, commonly known as the Poll Tax. Local council rates were replaced with a flat rate paid by every resident regardless of income.

The study has likened the levy to Margaret Thatcher's infamous poll tax in the 1990s, which triggered a backlash that led to ...

The Poll Tax led to riots and ultimately Thatcher’s downfall as Prime Minister and was abandoned immediately by John Major on entering office in 1992. Kwasi Kwarteng was forced into a U-turn on ...

It brought down Margaret Thatcher. Skip to ... but by a flat tax. From 1989 to 1990, Thatcher’s government ... The Community Charge came to be widely known as the “poll tax,” and the ...

The Labour government’s reforms to farmers’ inheritance tax announced in the Autumn Budget has been branded as “Keir Starmer’s Poll Tax”. William Lees-Jones, who owns and runs Manchester ...

Labour MPs ramped up their revolt against Keir Starmer over winter fuel and benefits cuts today - warning he faces a Poll Tax moment. Diane Abbott compared the public backlash to that faced by ...

The study has likened the levy to Margaret Thatcher's infamous poll tax in the 1990s, which triggered a backlash that led to the introduction of the initially fairer and cheaper council tax ...