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1988 Apr 7 - 1988 Jul 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2309
Local Government (Future of the rating system; rating revaluation; Community Charge) (Part 10)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Feb 19
Classification: Secret
Page count: 345
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88 Apr 1 Fr Major Community Charge: Conservative Research Department briefing ("A Three Tiered Community Charge" and "The Local Government Finance Bill") [released Feb 2016]
88 Apr 7 Th Major Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Nigel Lawson ("Community Charge Rebates") [appears to "clobber the rich"] [released Feb 2016]
88 Apr 8 Fr Major Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Lord Mackay ("Community Charge: Legal Aid for Appeals against Civil Penalties") [costs might exceed sums at issue] [released Feb 2016]
88 Apr 8 Fr Major Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Meeting on Community Charge and the Mates Amendment") [any other changes] [released Feb 2016]
88 Apr 11 Mo Major Community Charge: Nigel Lawson minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge Rebates") [proposals too expensive] [released Feb 2016]
88 Apr 11 Mo Major Community Charge: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Ridley-Wakeham-Waddington) [agreed concessions on rebate taper to counter Mates amendment] [released Feb 2016]
88 Apr 12 Tu Major Community Charge: Cabinet office minute to MT ("Dual Running: Rates and the Community Charge [E(LF) (88)8]") [arrangements in London] [released Feb 2016]
88 Apr 12 Tu Major Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("National Non-Domestic Rate and Non-Domestic Revaluation Transitional Arrangements and Business Consultation [E(LF) (88)7]") [transition for small firms] [released Feb 2016]
88 Apr 13 We Major Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to Paul Gray ("Local Government Finance Bill: Community Charge Rebates") [reduction in slope of the rebate taper] [released Feb 2016]
88 Apr 13 We Major Community Charge: Peter Stredder minute to MT ("E(LF): Thursday, 14 April") [non-domestic rates] [released Feb 2016]
88 Apr 13 We Major Community Charge: Gray letter to PS Michael Howard (figures for relative household contribution to local authority spending) [asks chapter and verse for Howard claim that top 10 percent will pay about 15 times more than bottom 10] [released Feb 2016]
88 Apr 13 We Major Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Community Charge Rebates") [concession on taper proposal to counter Mates amendment] [released Feb 2016]
88 Apr 14 Th Major Community Charge: John Moore minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Community Charge Rebates") [implications of proposals] [released Feb 2016]
88 Apr 14 Th Major Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Paul Gray ("Community Charge Rebates") [statement to backbenchers] [released Feb 2016]
88 Apr 14 Th Major Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to Paul Gray ("Local Government Finance Bill: Community Charge Rebates") [amendments] [released Feb 2016]
88 Apr 14 Th Major Community Charge: British Chambers of Commerce letter to MT (Uniform Business Rate) [flaws in the proposal] [released Feb 2016]
88 Apr 15 Fr Major Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to Paul Gray (level of contribution) [by higher income earners] [released Feb 2016]
88 Apr 19 Tu Major Community Charge: Paul Gray to Ridley PS ("Community Charge and Rent Rebates") [speaking note] [released Feb 2016]
88 Apr 20 We Major Community Charge: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray (minimum contribution) [basic point that the rich pay more] [released Feb 2016]
88 Apr 22 Fr Major Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Dual Runninng: Rates and the Community Charge") [inner London boroughs] [released Feb 2016]