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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91 Both the Poll Tax and the Business rate come into force on 1st April 1990.
92 In 1990 the unpopularity of the poll tax made even that levy politically unacceptable.
93 How very lucky they are that, as poll tax payers, they do have lights.
94 At least for the moment, the Conservative government has wrecked its popularity by pursuing misconceived projects such as the poll tax.
95 Langbaurgh's budget has been limited to ￡16.5m which will mean a reduction in poll tax bills of ￡18 a head.
96 What must be most worrying for Michael Fallon's campaign team is the poll tax factor.
97 Because of the threat of poll tax capping this year, it was compelled to cut ￡5 million from its budget.
98 We have the poll tax because there is no such thing as the sovereignty of Parliament.
99 The poll tax registers, unlike the electoral registers, are updated monthly.
100 What should replace the poll tax -; should the citizens not decide?
101 Like the poll tax(Sentencedict.com ), this property tax is deeply flawed.
102 The council says the withholding of poll tax payments and industrial action by treasury staff have made it difficult to collect money.
103 Labour's opinion poll lead slipped into single figures as the worst effects of the poll tax wore off.
104 Surely all poll tax cases should be stopped until the matter has been sorted out.
105 The poll tax disaster should surely put us on our guard.
106 But the Government has provided compensation allowances in income support payments equal to the average poll tax bill in each council area.
107 Just as the poll tax impost jarred on an historically raw nerve, so will the ban on fox-hunting.
108 I served on the Committee that dealt with the poll tax legislation.
109 If it were abolished, administration of the poll tax system would be easier.
110 He has also opposed the imprisonment of those unable to pay their poll tax.
111 They also got a new source of money, the council tax, to replace Mrs Thatcher's hated poll tax.
112 Like the poll tax, the consequences will be a scandal.
113 In many ways, the poll tax embodies the attitude which dismisses our interdependence, and therefore our obligations towards each other.
114 Like the poll tax[sentencedict.com], the council tax would also take account of the number of adults in each household.
115 The importance of the head count element in the property poll tax is most clearly shown in the proposals for the discounts.
116 With one bound, he was ... John Major has escaped the toils of the poll tax.
117 He has opposed the poll tax in its original form, discrimination against homosexuals and capital punishment.
118 Whereas rates were levied on property, the poll tax will be levied on individuals.
119 The local authority borrowing requirement fell to ￡1.8 billion last year from ￡3.4 billion, suggesting higher poll tax receipts.
120 Darlington council has a sophisticated computer system to cope with the poll tax process.
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