Community charge

The Community Charge
The Community charge is a system of local taxation used in Great Britain for a brief period between 1987 -1990. It was popularly referred to as the ‘poll tax’ and was widely disliked for its perceived inequity.

This replaced the Community Charge (unpopularly known as the poll tax) on April 1, 1993.

A local taxation system which was introduced on 1st April 1993 to replace the previous and unpopular community charge (poll tax).

The change from a progressive local taxation based on property values to a single-rate form of taxation regardless of ability to pay (the Community Charge, but more popularly referred to as the Poll Tax), ...

See also: Poll tax, European union, Conservative, Flat rate, Free market