the tax was thus accused of saving the rich money and moving the expenses onto the poor. In November 1989 the All Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation was...
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All Britain Anti Poll Tax Federation, commonly known as "the Fed", was an organisation in Great Britain to co-ordinate the activities of local Anti-Poll...
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the All Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation, other national networks such as 3D (Don't Register, Don't Pay, Don't Collect) and by hundreds of local Anti-Poll...
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and Wales). The first anti-poll tax union was established in Maryhill, Glasgow, April 1987. An All Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation ("the Fed") was set...
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Mass protests were called by the All Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation with which the vast majority of local Anti-Poll Tax Unions (APTUs) were affiliated...
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List of protests in the United Kingdom (category All articles with unsourced statements)
Action Blair Peach Kevin Gately George Floyd protests in the United Kingdom Poll tax riots Fuel protests in the United Kingdom Rebecca Riots Poplar Rates Rebellion...
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Militant tendency (redirect from Militant (Britain))
Between 1989 and 1991, Militant led the All Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation's non-payment campaign against the poll tax. In 1991, Militant decided by a large...
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Philadelphia Tea Party (category Tax resistance in the United States)
being upset about Great Britain's decision to tax the American colonies despite a lack of representation in Parliament. The tax on tea particularly angered...
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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick (category Use British English from September 2017)
Significant among these are the archives of the: All Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation Amnesty International Anti-Nazi League Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament...
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The Anarchist Federation (AF, AFed) is a federation of anarcho-communists in Great Britain. It is not a political party, but a direct action, agitational...
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The Anti-Bin Tax Campaign opposed the introduction of bin charges (garbage-collection fees) by local authorities in Ireland. The campaign centred largely...
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2024 United Kingdom general election (redirect from 2024 British general election)
former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, and the Workers Party of Britain, led by anti-war activist George Galloway, who won the 2024 Rochdale by-election...
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rejected the capitalist views of the colonial Dutch, who predominately forced taxes upon the people of Indonesia, including the poor, and monopolized their...
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repair. Another example of a tax with few deadweight costs is a lump sum tax such as a poll tax (head tax) which is paid by all adults regardless of their...
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The harmonized sales tax (HST) is a consumption tax in Canada. It is used in provinces where both the federal goods and services tax (GST) and the regional...
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Solidarity (Ireland) (redirect from Anti Austerity Alliance)
‘Millionaire's Tax’ on net personal wealth in excess of €1 million. Solidarity opposes a referendum on Irish reunification as a "border poll" on the grounds...
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taxed good or activity or engaged in a strike to reduce or eliminate the tax due. In the 1st century AD, Jewish Zealots in Judaea resisted the poll tax...
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openly criticised the subversive campaign. It established a "national anti-household tax" phone line and organised meetings in every major town in the country...
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Rugeley and Lichfield to oppose the poll tax and distributed flyers advertising the All Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation rally in London planned for 31 March;...
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Britain (19%), Canada (21%), Germany (24%), Australia (24%), Japan (24%), the United States (24%) and France (24%) were least likely. A YouGov poll on...
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Taxation in the United Kingdom (redirect from Income tax in the United Kingdom)
throughout the 18th century and the early 19th century. Income tax was announced in Britain by William Pitt the Younger in his budget of December 1798 and...
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2020s. Anti-Poll Tax Federation Anti-Nazi League Awkward squad (trade unionists) Battle of Cable Street Chartism Communist Party of Great Britain Diggers...
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DAM co-founded Anti-Fascist Action, within which it was active into the 1990s. The DAM later participated in the opposition to the poll tax and the protests...
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A Tobin tax was originally defined as a tax on all spot conversions of one currency into another. It was suggested by James Tobin, an economist who won...
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Democratic Party (United States) (category All articles with failed verification)
national bank and high tariffs. It split in 1860 over slavery, with the anti-slavery party becoming what is now the Republican party and the pro-slavery...
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Tea Party movement (redirect from The National Tea Party Federation)
which Tea Party Republicans... fought any compromise on taxes and spending". Similarly, a Pew poll found that 29% of respondents thought Congressional Tea...
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Racism in the United Kingdom (redirect from Racism in Britain)
campaigns, and campaigned for a ban on all Polish migrant workers to Britain. In 2009, the Federation of Poles in Great Britain and the Polish Embassy in London...
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payment of a poll tax or other types of tax by the Twenty-fourth Amendment. The Constitution provides in the Origination Clause that all bills for raising...
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Socialist Campaign Group (category Groups of British MPs)
move the expenses onto the poor. Only 15 Labour MPs supported the Anti Poll Tax Federation. Socialist Campaign Group MPs made up a significant number of these...
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Colonies and Britain became increasingly strained, primarily because of resentment of the British Parliament's attempts to govern and tax American colonists...
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