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Community Charge: Treasury minute to Chancellor ("The Community Charge and the RPI Advisory Committee") [options for government representatives on RPIAC - "say as little as possible" Lawson's preference] [declassified Feb 2018]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: T640/829 f101
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Supporting documents follow, including Lawson's minute to MT on this topic and No.10's reply. Read documents selected from this file. Read the whole file here.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 8pp
Themes: Monetary policy, Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”), Judiciary, Chancellor of the Exchequer’s minutes