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Community Charge: Nigel Lawson minute to MT ("Community Charge and the RPI") [some considerable sensitivities here] [released Feb 2016]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/2310 f139
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 5pp
Themes: Monetary policy, Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”), Judiciary, Chancellor of the Exchequer’s minutes