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A poll tax is a tax of a fixed sum on every liable individual (typically every adult), without reference to income or resources. Various privileges of citizenship, including voter registration or issuance of driving licenses and resident hunting and fishing licenses, were conditioned on payment of poll taxes to encourage the collection of this tax revenue.
Jizya is a land or poll tax decreed by the Quran, paid annually by non-believers in Islam living under Islamic law (residents with dhimmi status). Jizya began during the reign of Muhammad (from 9 A.H.) in places like Yemen, Bahrain, and Jerash. [9] As a poll tax, the tax usually only applied to free, abled-bodied adult men.
The poll tax mechanism varied on a state-by-state basis; in Alabama, the poll tax was cumulative, meaning that a man had to pay all poll taxes due from the age of twenty-one onward in order to vote. In other states, poll taxes had to be paid for several years before being eligible to vote. Enforcement of poll tax laws was patchy.
Low-income Californians eligible for tax credits often have their tax returns intercepted by the government for outstanding parking tickets, unpaid tuition and other fees.
Coupled with continued smishing scams texts asking for money for unpaid tolls, the organization has suspended all late fees and registration holds to give customers time to adjust to the new toll ...
"Toll agencies set prices (i.e., toll rates, fees, penalties) to offset unpaid tolls, just as the cost of goods we buy in retail stores is set to cover losses," the association said in an email.
A lump-sum tax is one of the various modes used for taxation: income, things owned (property taxes), money spent (sales taxes), miscellaneous (excise taxes), etc.It is a regressive tax, such that the lower the income is, the higher the percentage of income applicable to the tax.
Poll taxes disenfranchised Mexican Americans because their low wages made payment of the tax a hardship. [158] Lulu B. White, president of the Houston chapter of the NAACP in the 1930s and state director of the organization in the 1940s, worked for anti-poll tax initiatives and held rallies against poll taxes, as part of her civil rights platform.