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Community Charge: Baker and Waldegrave cabinet paper ("The Local Government Finance Studies: Specification Report") [circulated as E(LF) 85 1] [released Dec 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1560 f71
Editorial comments:

Undated; listed 14 May because it was circulated that day to E(LF) with a covering paper by Patrick Jenkin, also on this file. MT did not annotate this copy, so it is likely the one she read does not survive. The final page of the document is a table formatted in the same way as those in the report, but not circulated with it. It was given to Turnbull separately, presumably by the authors, and carefully filed. Read other documents selected from this file. The full file from which this item is taken can be seen here.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 107pp
Themes: Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”)