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UK: Poll tax - millions before the courts

01 January 1992

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In the fifteen month period 1 April 1990 to 30 June 1991 magistrates courts made liability orders for the poll tax against 3,960,111 people. By the end of September 1991 the figures over the same period had risen to 5,700,000 orders. 34 million people are liable for the annual poll tax.

Further figures compiled by Dave Nellist MP showed that between April 1990 and the end of September 1991 8 million summonses were issued. 4.2 million liability hearings took place without defendants present. The total estimated cost in magistrate courts' time was £5.1 million. Ninety people had been sent to prison a third of whom were unemployed.

Independent, 18.11.91; Hansard written answer, 17.11.91.

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