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Rates: Whitelaw minute to MT (“Ministerial group on local government organisation: alternatives to domestic rates”) [MT: “I am totally against a local income tax”] [declassified 2012]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/0829 f18
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 16pp
Themes: Parliament, Conservatism, Economic policy - theory and process, Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”)