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FORMER PM Margaret Thatcher was threatened with a fine for failing to register for the poll tax, declassified documents reveal today.
The former prime minister’s introduction of the hated tax in 1989-1990 hastened the end of the Thatcher regime.
The tax, which took no account of the size of one’s property but was based on the number of occupants, was widely seen as simultaneously a sop to the rich and an attack on the most vulnerable and led to a mass campaign of non-payment and riots which shook London.
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
The Tory conference was a pseudo-sacred affair, with devotees paying homage in front of Thatcher’s old shrouds — and your reporter, initially barred, only need mention he’d once met her to gain access. But would she consider what was on offer a worthy legacy, asks ANDREW MURRAY
