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Community Charge: Treasury minute ("Prospects for Local Authority Finances") [financial overview of introduction of Community Charge] [declassified Feb 2018]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: T640/825 f48
Editorial comments:

This item is perhaps misdated or has been placed in the wrong file, since nothing else in T640/825 dates from the second half of June. Read documents selected from this file. Read the whole file here.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 10pp
Themes: Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”), Chancellor of the Exchequer’s meetings