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Even Thatcher almost caught out by poll tax
Residents of No 10 threatened with fine for failing to fill in council forms
FORMER PM Margaret Thatcher was threatened with a fine for failing to register for the poll tax, declassified documents reveal today.
The former prime minister’s introduction of the hated tax in 1989-1990 hastened the end of the Thatcher regime.
The tax, which took no account of the size of one’s property but was based on the number of occupants, was widely seen as simultaneously a sop to the rich and an attack on the most vulnerable and led to a mass campaign of non-payment and riots which shook London.
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