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2 unusual facts about Community Charge


Community Charge

In popular culture, the punk band The Exploited featured the song "Don't Pay The Poll Tax" in their album The Massacre.

St Albans District Council v International Computers Ltd

A contract to provide software (COMCIS) for the implementation of the Community Charge ("poll tax") of International Computers Ltd limited its liability to £100,000.


Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Adonis has worked for a number of think tanks, is a board member of Policy Network and is the author or co-author of several books, including several studies of the British class system, the rise and fall of the Community Charge, and the Victorian House of Lords.

Street Fighting Years

The lyrics built on the more political themes which the band had introduced with 'Ghostdancing', moving away from the impressionistic or spiritual concerns of earlier 1980s Simple Minds songs and covering topics including the Poll Tax, the Soweto townships, the Berlin Wall and the stationing of nuclear submarines on the Scottish coast.


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