Definition: Poll tax

Category: SNA

Poll taxes are taxes levied as specific amounts of money per adult person, or per household, independently of actual or presumed income or wealth.

This definition is used both in SNA 1993 (§ 8.54) and in SNA 2008 (§ 8.64). http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/SNA2008.pdf United Nations, System of National Accounts (SNA) 1993, United Nations, New York, 1993
Source:
European Commission (Eurostat), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), United Nations (Statistics Division), World Bank, "System of National Accounts 2008", United Nations, New York, 2009
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