What is Poll tax?
'''Poll tax''' is a system of [[tax]]ing. It is also called '''head tax'''. It is based on the idea that everyone pays the same amount of tax. This is regardless of how much they earn. In the last few years of [[Margaret Thatcher|Margaret Thatcher's]] reign as [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Prime minister]], she received heavy opposition and mass [[riot]]s were held when she tried to have poll tax used as the tax system. Her tax was called Community Charge.<ref>{{Cite web|title=poll tax in Encyclopedia of Britain by Bamber Gascoigne|url=http://www.historyworld.net/Articles/PlainTextArticles.asp?aid=zai&pid=165|access-date=2023-02-05|website=www.historyworld.net}}</ref> [[Council Tax]] took its place in 1993. An earlier poll tax in England caused the Peasants' Revolt in 1381.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cartwright|first=Mark|title=Peasants' Revolt|url=https://www.worldhistory.org/Peasants%27_Revolt/|access-date=2023-02-05|website=World History Encyclopedia|language=en}}</ref> {{Politics-stub}} ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Taxation in the United Kingdom]]