大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 community charge


释义：

community charge 人头税（源于英国）

例句：



Owners of holiday caravans will not normally have to pay a standard community charge.

假日房车车主通常不得不支付一笔基本社区费用。


Like Blair, Thatcher's popularity waned, in part because of her determination to introduce the community charge, or "poll tax" as it became known.


The test - most commentators agreed - would come when he was forced to decide the future of the community charge, or poll tax - the policy that had brought ruin to his predecessor.


One of her first actions was to introduce the poll tax or community charge, a flat-rate tax for local services which was based on individuals rather than the value of the property in which they lived.


Lord Jenkin told BBC Radio 4's The World at One he was not proud of having "dreamt up" in the 1980s the Community Charge - which became known as the "poll tax" and faced mass protest and a central London riot before being replaced by the Council Tax.