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Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Private Office files (Lawson)

Community Charge: Treasury minute for Lawson ("E(LF): Non-domestic rate transition and dual running") ["half-baked proposal put together hurriedly by DOE officials to meet a supposed political need"] [declassified Feb 2018]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: T640/823 f123
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 18pp
Themes: Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”), Executive, Parliament