There was mass non payment of the tax around Britain and even a member of parliament was sent to prison for not paying. In 1990 a protest on the poll tax broke out into mass violence in London[1][2]. The tax was one of the main reasons for the downfall of Margaret Thatcher because the tax was so intensely unpopular. It and was abolished within a few years, in favour of the Council tax, which was a compromise between the Poll tax and the "rates" which the poll tax had replaced, as people with larger houses pay a bit more, but Council tax isn't in proportion to the value of properties and it gives a 25% discount to single occupants, so it is something of a compromise between the Poll tax idea of everyone paying the same and the rates idea of paying a tax linked to the value of your home.
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| - There was mass non payment of the tax around Britain and even a member of parliament was sent to prison for not paying. In 1990 a protest on the poll tax broke out into mass violence in London[1][2]. The tax was one of the main reasons for the downfall of Margaret Thatcher because the tax was so intensely unpopular. It and was abolished within a few years, in favour of the Council tax, which was a compromise between the Poll tax and the "rates" which the poll tax had replaced, as people with larger houses pay a bit more, but Council tax isn't in proportion to the value of properties and it gives a 25% discount to single occupants, so it is something of a compromise between the Poll tax idea of everyone paying the same and the rates idea of paying a tax linked to the value of your home.
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| - There was mass non payment of the tax around Britain and even a member of parliament was sent to prison for not paying. In 1990 a protest on the poll tax broke out into mass violence in London[1][2]. The tax was one of the main reasons for the downfall of Margaret Thatcher because the tax was so intensely unpopular. It and was abolished within a few years, in favour of the Council tax, which was a compromise between the Poll tax and the "rates" which the poll tax had replaced, as people with larger houses pay a bit more, but Council tax isn't in proportion to the value of properties and it gives a 25% discount to single occupants, so it is something of a compromise between the Poll tax idea of everyone paying the same and the rates idea of paying a tax linked to the value of your home.
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