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A poll tax is a tax of a fixed amount applied to every individual regardless of income.
Poll tax may also refer to:
- Poll tax (Great Britain), officially the "Community Charge", a former system of local taxation in the late 20th century
- Poll taxes in the United States, versions of the poll tax once levied in the United States as a precondition to voting
- New Zealand head tax, a poll tax once levied on Chinese immigrants
- The Jewish poll tax in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
See also
- Chinese head tax in Canada
- Peasants' Revolt, in 14th-century England, in response to a poll tax
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