Lavalette, Michael and Mooney, Gerry
(1989).
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1177/026101838900902607 |
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Abstract
April the first, 1989, was an historic day in Scotland. Traditionally April Fool's Day has historically given rise to a wide-range of pracical jokes and stunts, a day for laughing as friends and enemies are caught unawares. But this year's April Fools Day was not a laughing matter for the vast majority of Scotland's population. As 25,000 demonstrators marched through Edinburgh in a protest against the Poll Tax, 3.9 million Scots started receiving their first Community Charge' bills, replacing the Domestic Rating System which was abolished under the Abolition of Domestic Rates etc (Scotland) Act, 1987 The Poll Tax legislation for England and Wales, contained in the Local Government Finance Act, 1988, will come into force on April 1, 1990.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| ISSN: | 0261-0183 |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Social Sciences > Social Policy and Criminology |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR) OpenSpace Research Centre (OSRC) |
| Item ID: | 17695 |
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| Date Deposited: | 13 Jul 2009 09:21 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2012 10:08 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/17695 |
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