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community charge

com·mu·ni·ty charge


noun 
Definition:
 
former tax in Britain: a flat-rate tax levied in Britain from the late 1980s until 1993 on all adults to part-finance local government. It was introduced as a replacement for domestic taxes and was replaced by the council tax, based on property value.

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