Similar words: poll, pollen, pollution, tax, consultant, taxi stand, taxpayer, simultaneously. Meaning: n. a tax of a fixed amount per person and payable as a requirement for the right to vote.
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61 And he identified poll tax dodgers as part of the problem.
62 The council tax Bill exists because the poll tax was the disaster that so many hon. Members said it would be.
63 The Conservatives introduced the poll tax and made a mess of implementing it.
64 The same applies to much else that languishes in this tax as an alternative to the ill-fated poll tax.
65 Faced with the poll tax, most of its modern citizenry have sounded distinctly unphilosophical these past few weeks.
66 Alas, the poll tax will linger on, in less expensive form, until April 1993.
67 There would be no reason to have introduced the poll tax and no reason for another arbitrary and unfair property tax.
68 It is no wonder that local government finance officers regard the poll tax as a financial nightmare.
69 I am interested in whether the police national computer is linked with poll tax registers, electoral rolls and telephone numbers.
70 While it was not the sole cause of this, the poll tax was undoubtably the most important single factor.
71 The Bill perpetuates all the anomalies, unfairness,(www.Sentencedict.com) regional variations and bureaucracy that made the poll tax unpopular.
72 A number of women with no income have been sent to prison because they were unable to pay the poll tax.
73 The abolition of the poll tax is widely welcomed until we consider what will replace it - simply more of the same.
74 Paul finds his mind is wandering, thinking about the poll tax program again.
75 Changes in community care were recently postponed because they would add to Poll Tax charges.
76 If you are currently receiving a Rate rebate you will automatically be assessed for Poll Tax Benefit.
77 Even the Tories saw that the country would not stand for the Mad Woman's poll tax and ditched it.
78 This included the poll tax and changes in health provision, unemployment and housing benefits and education.
79 Commentators instead emphasize that the poll tax is ultimately concerned with reducing local government revenue.
80 A large number of people seem to share the Prime Minister's belief that the poll tax is already abolished.
81 Less than four years ago, the House debated the Second Reading of the poll tax bill.
82 Of course not; at that stage, they were still clinging to the poll tax.
83 The poll tax cut across this, with its concept of a universal obligation.
84 The total is then distributed among local authorities on the basis of the number of people listed on the Poll Tax register.
85 There will be a lot of losers in changing from the poll tax, which will make the new tax unpopular too.
86 One way of preparing to evade the poll tax is therefore to disappear from the electoral roll.
87 A company which refused to make attachment of earnings deductions against one poll tax offender, was fined ￡200 by magistrates.
88 The main Bill scraps the poll tax and provides local finance through the establishment of a new council tax.
89 He claimed he was inside for not paying his poll tax.
90 Many of those anomalies were identified by my colleagues at the very outset of the poll tax escapade.
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