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Community Charge: Draft minute for Chancellor to send MT ("Community Charge: Transition") [Lawson comments] [declassified Feb 2018]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: T640/482 f15
Editorial comments:

For convenience the editor has transcribed Nigel Lawson's handwritten page of notes (first page, in red). Read documents selected from this file. The document as submitted and lightly annotated by MT can be read here. Read the whole file here.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 11pp
Themes: Taxation, Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”), Chancellor of the Exchequer’s minutes