| The policy would be used to embarrass non-payers of council tax, poll tax and business rates. |
| But the worst was an old bird who shouted at me about the poll tax and blamed me for Black Wednesday. |
| Nothing destroys governmental authority more than an unenforceable law, as the poll tax demonstrated. |
| When the council tax replaced the poll tax in 1993, homes were placed in eight bands based on property prices. |
| Roman citizens paid little tax, but provincials paid a property tax and a poll tax amounting to 10 or 15 percent of income. |
| The Government is deliberately fleecing young people by charging them an outrageous poll tax on their first home. |
