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Whups

The ‘poll tax’ was a cost of services tax. The cost of services provided by councils was to be shared equally by the number of residents in a council area. It had nothing to do with the value of the property one lived in. That was what the rates system, and the current version was based on.
So I think we can confidently say that Tonker was correct.
Since the introduction of the poll tax the number of single person homes has grown significantly although the growth of such has now levelled off. Currently there are over 8 million homes occupied by a single person. Perhaps the poll tax wasn’t a bad idea after all.