Poll Tax Definition

noun
A tax per person, levied on individuals rather than on property: such a tax as a prerequisite for voting is unconstitutional in the U.S.
Webster's New World
A per capita tax of a fixed amount charged each person to register to vote, or to vote. Such a charge is prohibited in federal elections by the Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. State laws requiring such fees have been ruled to violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Webster's New World Law

Other Word Forms of Poll Tax

Noun

Singular:
poll tax
Plural:
poll taxes

Origin of Poll Tax

  • From sense poll (“head") for “uniform tax per individual"; from sense poll (“voting place") for “tax required to vote".

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Poll Tax Sentence Examples

  • An annual poll-tax is also collected for the schools from every adult male.

  • Conquered peoples who will neither embrace Islam nor pay a poll-tax (jizya) are to be put to the sword.

  • The principal sources of revenue are the licences granted for the importation and retailing of opium, wine and spirits, which are in the hands of Chinese; a customs duty of 5% on imports; an export tax of 5 70 on jungle produce; a poll-tax sanctioned by ancient native custom; and a stamp duty.

  • The peasantry defended themselves by the simple device of understating the numbers of their families; the returns made it appear that the adult population of England had gone down from 1,355,000 to 896,000 since the poll-tax of 1379.

  • Revenue is derived chiefly from a poll-tax on natives of £I per annum, concession rents, royalties and customs. For the period1904-1909the revenue - apart from loans - was about £40,000 a year, the normal expenditure being approximately the same amount.

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