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community charge
noun
- (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates Also calledpoll tax
Example Sentences
Elected as MP for Banff and Buchan in 1987, he quickly made his mark by getting himself banned from the Commons chamber for a week after interrupting the chancellor's Budget speech in protest at the introduction of the community charge in Scotland.
He opposed the introduction of the community charge, or poll tax as it came to be known, but was over-ruled by Thatcher.
A flagship policy of Margaret Thatcher's government, the Community Charge, more commonly called the poll tax, was eventually replaced after triggering mass civil disobedience and riots and some were sent to prison for non-payment.
The union leader herself went to court for non-payment of the controversial Community Charge along with her husband Dave, then a Coventry Labour MP but who in 1991 was deselected by his party and its leader Neil Kinnock for his links to the left wing Militant group.
People came from all walks of life to show their opposition to the new Community Charge - a local tax on every adult citizen which replaced domestic rates, a longstanding tax on property.
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