UK households face a new 'POLL TAX' as council tax consumes a large share of household. The analysis that likened it to the poll tax that contributed to the downfall of Margaret Thatcher was ...

Council tax is increasingly resembling ‘the dreaded poll tax’ with the poorest households ... t risen enough in recent decades, as the UK economy has stagnated. But where their money comes ...

Approval among Britons for the UK to increase ... an Ipsos poll showed. Some 44% say such spending should be increased, even if it results in extra government borrowing, higher taxes, or less ...

Rachel Reeves may have to hit Brits with a £12billion tax bill to hike ... Can't see the poll below? Click here Writing in The Telegraph, Sir Keir said: "The UK is ready to play a leading role ...

Experts said council tax had become the new poll tax with low-income families suffering most as the charge takes up a growing share of their income. But the Local Government Association ...

An Ipsos UK poll for The Times newspaper showed 30% of ... even if this means extra government borrowing, higher taxes or less money to spend on other public services - a rise from 42% in February.

House prices slipped 0.1% month-on-month in February, after rising by a revised 0.6% in January, and were below all forecasts ...

Economist Lalitha Try noted that the poorest households are “spending almost as much on these bills as they pay in income tax. This terribly designed tax increasingly resembles the very thing it was ...

The pubs boss has liked the policy, which has generated several high-profile protests since it was first announced, to the Margaret Thatcher’s Poll Tax which was introduced in 1990 and sped up ...

British house prices rose by a stronger-than-expected 0.4% in February compared with January, according to data published by ...

Labour has suffered a surprise by-election defeat in west London amid ongoing anger over council tax increases. Independent ...

More people would oppose than support tax rises to pay for an increase in defence spending, YouGov polling has suggested ... has committed to raising UK defence spending to 2.5 per cent of ...