单词 | poll tax |
释义 | poll taxn. 1. A tax levied on every person; a capitation; = poll money n.Applied spec. to the tax imposed by Richard II in 1381 that provoked the Peasants' Revolt. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > poll tax head pennyc1175 head silver1252 cense1458 chevage1461 poll money1468 head moneyc1515 polling-penny?1556 capitation?1608 poll-silver1610 census1613 headagea1631 poll1669 poll tax1692 capitation tax1695 1692 Mass. Province Acts & Resolves I. 30 All persons who through age or infirmity are unable to manage their affairs are to be free of the poll-tax, at the discretion of the selectmen. 1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World xvii. 462 The Dutch..exact from all the men a Poll-Tax of a dollar a month. 1794 R. Southey Wat Tyler ii. iii Why is this ruinous poll-tax imposed, But to support your court's extravagance? 1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1984) 24 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. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. iv. 84 The limit of age in the first poll-tax was sixteen, in the second fifteen, years. 1900 Congress. Rec. 22 Jan. 1033/1 The grandfather clause will not avail those citizens who..are unable to pay their poll tax. 1938 Dominion (Wellington, N.Z.) 10 Oct. 8 (advt.) Will she have to pay poll tax? Under Labour..Yes! 1991 A. Hourani Hist. Arab Peoples i. ii. 35 The second was a poll tax levied on non-Muslims, graded roughly according to their wealth (jizya). 2. British. An informal name for: the community charge (see community n. Compounds 2). Now disused.In quot. 1981 as a hypothetical alternative to the existing rates system of local government charges, proposed in a private member's bill. The community charge proved generally unpopular, and its introduction provoked some civil unrest (cf. sense 1). It was replaced by council tax (see council tax n. at council n. Additions) in 1993. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > local or municipal taxes or dues > [noun] > community charge community tax1850 poll tax1981 community charge1985 1981 Times 3 Feb. 2/6 The adoption of a poll tax would increase the element of local accountability. 1986 Times (Nexis) 28 Jan. The most controversial proposal in the Green paper involves the introduction of a poll tax, known as a community charge, which would replace the domestic rate. 1991 Municipal Rev. & AMA News Jan.–Feb. 225/3 Many people were going ‘missing’ in a bid to avoid registration for the poll tax. 2003 Independent on Sunday 2 Nov. i. 1/4 Some Tory MPs are nervous about public memories of Mr Howard as a hard-line, right-wing minister, who introduced the poll tax. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1692 |
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