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Community Charge: Gray letter to PS Michael Howard (figures for relative household contribution to local authority spending) [asks chapter and verse for Howard claim that top 10 percent will pay about 15 times more than bottom 10] [released Feb 2016]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/2309 f268
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 1p
Themes: Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”), Parliament