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poll-tax|ˈpəʊltæks|
[f. poll n.1 + tax n.]
A tax levied on every person; a capitation or head-tax. A later name for poll-money.
1694Molesworth Account of Denmark 111 Here is commonly one Poll-tax at least every year. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World 462 The Dutch..exact from all the men a Poll-Tax of a dollar a month. 1794Southey Wat Tyler ii. iii, Why is this ruinous poll-tax imposed, But to support your court's extravagance? 1825Jefferson Autobiog. & Writ. Wks. 1859 I. 29 The practice of the Southern colonies has always been to make every farmer pay poll taxes upon all his laborers, whether they be black or white. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. iv. 84 The limit of age in the first poll-tax was sixteen, in the second fifteen, years.
Add: Also poll tax. b. spec. = community charge s.v. *community n. 11. colloq.
1985Times 20 May 12/6 It is the dreaded poll tax that I am referring to. 1986Independent 17 Nov. 6 Scottish opposition parties concentrated on the assumed unfairness of the poll tax, which takes no account of an individual's ability to pay. 1988Ann. Reg. 1987 29 Particular emphasis was placed on the poll tax as a way of forcing local councils to become fully ‘accountable’ to all their electors. |