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Council Tax is a local taxation system used in England, Scotland and Wales. It is a tax on domestic property, which was introduced in 1993 by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, replacing the short-lived Community Charge (also known as "poll tax"), which in turn replaced the domestic rates.
Council Tax in Scotland is a tax on domestic property which was introduced across Scotland in 1993, along with England and Wales, following passage of the Local Government Finance Act 1992. It replaced the Community Charge (popularly known as the Poll Tax).
The Students’ Representative Council was founded on 9 March 1886. Despite its contemporary independence from the Glasgow University Union, members of the Union founded the SRC in order to lobby the University to fund the creation of a building for the Union they had founded the previous year. [1]
The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals; Scottish Gaelic: Oilthigh Ghlaschu [7]) is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland.Founded by papal bull in 1451 [O.S. 1450], [8] it is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities.
However, during the 17th century, Parliament permitted a Land Tax to be collected from 1667, a Hearth tax from 1691 to 1695 and a Poll tax from 1693 to 1699. [ 3 ] The 1707 Union of the Kingdom of Scotland with the Kingdom of England formed a new Kingdom of Great Britain , so that responsibility for taxation in Scotland became a matter for the ...
Glasgow City Council (Scottish Gaelic: Comhairle Baile Ghlaschu) is the local government authority for Glasgow City council area, Scotland. In its modern form it was created in 1996. Glasgow was formerly governed by a corporation, also known as the town council, from the granting of its first burgh charter in the 1170s
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22 February – Argyll and Bute Council votes to raise its council tax by 10%, and rejects the Scottish Government's council tax freeze by doing so. [ 58 ] 23 February – The Scottish Government publishes draft legislation proposing a ban on the sale of disposable vapes in Scotland by 1 April 2025.