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The Union Response to the Poll Tax

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  • Sampson, Anthony A
  • Simmons, Robert

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The poll tax (community charge) recently imposed and subsequently abolished.in the United Kingdom, has proved controversial. This paper examines how a rational trade union would respond to the imposition of a poll tax and then to its replacement by a local income tax. The authors find simple sufficient conditions for the wage rate to rise in response to the imposition of a poll tax. Similar, but not identical, conditions imply that the wage will fall in response to the replacement of the poll tax by a local income tax. Copyright 1992 by Scottish Economic Society.

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  • Sampson, Anthony A & Simmons, Robert, 1992. "The Union Response to the Poll Tax," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Scottish Economic Society, vol. 39(4), pages 431-438, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:scotjp:v:39:y:1992:i:4:p:431-38
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    1. Juin‐Jen Chang & Chung‐Cheng Lin & Ching‐Chong Lai, 1999. "The Unemployment and Wage Effects of Shifting to an Indirect Tax in an Efficiency Wage Model," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 75(2), pages 156-166, June.

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