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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.
On October 29, 2019, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed Act 77 by a vote of 138–61. [5] Later that day, the Pennsylvania State Senate passed Act 77 by a vote of 35–14. [6] Governor Tom Wolf signed Act 77 into law two days later. [7] The law enacted numerous changes to Pennsylvania's election code.
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The Community Charge, popularly dubbed the "poll tax", was a tax to fund local government, instituted in 1989 by the government of Margaret Thatcher. It replaced the rates that were based on the notional rental value of a house.
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The state of Pennsylvania has 19 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state lost a seat. [2] Pennsylvania was seen to hold the largest electoral prize of all the swing states in 2024. As such, it was generally believed that the winner of the state was highly likely ...
The poll found support for more tax credit scholarships (80%), government-funded education opportunity accounts for parents in the state's lowest-performing school districts (77%) and giving ...
From 1900 to 1937, such use of the poll tax was nearly ignored by the federal government. Several state-level initiatives repealed poll taxes during this period for two reasons: firstly that they encouraged corruption since wealthy persons could and would pay other people's poll taxes; [ 3 ] [ 4 ] secondly, because they discouraged white voting ...