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Community Charge: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor, Economic Secretary, senior officials) ["Community Charge and RPI" - decision to wait for Bank letter] [declassified Feb 2018]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: T640/828 f93
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 4pp
Themes: Monetary policy, Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”), Judiciary, Chancellor of the Exchequer’s meetings