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unusual facts about Poll tax



Aerarii

aes, "bronze" or "money" in its subsidiary sense of "poll tax") were a class of Roman citizens not included in the thirty tribes of Servius Tullius, and subject to a poll-tax arbitrarily fixed by the censor.

Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

United States Supreme Court decisions in the late nineteenth century interpreted the amendment narrowly, and by 1910, most black voters in the South faced obstacles such as poll taxes and literacy tests, from which white voters were exempted by grandfather clauses.

George Square

The square later provided a home to political hustings and meetings of all sorts, protests against the Poll tax and Iraq War, annual Remembrance Day parades and has lately become the venue for the city's extensive Hogmanay celebrations.

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.

Workers Party of Scotland

On his release after more than 11 years, he sought to continue the work he was jailed for and along with others in the movement like Linda Lygate, started the anti-poll tax movement, beginning in Maryhill and spreading out all over Scotland.


see also

Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf

Dennett, Daniel Clement, Conversion and the poll tax in early Islam, 38.

Capitation

Tax per head, poll tax, or head tax, a tax of a fixed amount per individual

Community Charge

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

Snap, Wiltshire

It was always a small place: in the 14th century there were 19 poll-tax payers, in 1773 there were between 5 and 10 cottages and in the 1851 Census the population was 41.

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.