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  2. Council Tax - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Taxation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Federal income tax rates have been modified frequently. Tax rates were changed in 34 of the 97 years between 1913 and 2010. [157] The rate structure has been graduated since the 1913 act. Total tax revenue (not adjusted for inflation) for the U.S. federal government from 1980 to 2009 compared to the amount of revenue coming from individual ...

  4. Property tax in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The largest property tax exemption is the exemption for registered non-profit organizations; all 50 states fully exempt these organizations from state and local property taxes with a 2009 study estimating the exemption's forgone tax revenues range from $17–32 billion per year.

  5. List of taxes - Wikipedia

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    Council Tax is a tax in the United Kingdom on houses. Danegeld was a tax paid to the Vikings to ensure the Vikings would not raid a person's land. Kharaj is an Islamic tax on agricultural land. Land value tax is a tax on the value of land that does not tax the value of the improvements on the land. Tallage, a tax on land levied in Medieval Europe.

  6. Council Tax in Scotland - Wikipedia

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    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).

  7. Local Government Finance Act 1992 - Wikipedia

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    An Act to provide for certain local authorities to levy and collect a new tax, to be called council tax; to abolish community charges; to make further provision with respect to local government finance (including provision with respect to certain grants by local authorities); and for connected purposes. Citation: 1992 c. 14: Introduced by ...

  8. Rates (tax) - Wikipedia

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    Levied on domestic property as well as non-domestic premises. Prior to 2000, it was used to fund municipal services, the responsibility of the now-abolished Urban Council and Regional Council, through the Urban Services Department and Regional Services Department. The revenue now goes to the Treasury. The bill is issued quarterly.

  9. Local government in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Cities in Pennsylvania are divided into four classes: Class 1, Class 2, Class 2A, and Class 3. Class 3 cities, which are the smallest, have either a mayor-council system or a council-manager system like that of a borough, although the mayor or city manager has more oversight and duties compared to their borough counterparts.