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Join Professor Jeremy Bearer-Friend online at 5pm on Tuesday 13 September as he reflects on his research at the National Library of Scotland on the anti-poll tax movement.
For joining instructions please register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/poll-taxes-revisited-inequality-resistance-and-the-community-charge-tickets-395146362407
About this event
Using the archives of the National Library of Scotland, Professor Jeremy Bearer-Friend will put the Community Charge into global perspective as he explores how the everyday act of tax filing can become both a tool of discrimination and a powerful forum for political expression. The introduction of the Community Charge in Scotland in 1989 was one of the defining moments of modern UK politics. Famously defended by Nicholas Ridley, Conservative Secretary of State for the Environment, on the grounds that a Duke would pay no more than a dustman, the arrival of the unpopular form of tax in Scotland a year before its introduction in England and Wales inspired a mass non-payment campaign and helped to bring about the end of Margaret Thatcher’s career as Prime Minister. But it was not the first time a poll tax had been introduced by a British or US government during the twentieth century.
Jeremy Bearer-Friend is Associate Professor at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. and the 2021-2022 Fulbright-National Library of Scotland Scholar. His research focuses on the relationship between tax, race, and citizenship. Prior to academia, he was Tax Counsel to Senator Elizabeth Warren and an associate with D.C. tax boutique Ivins, Phillips & Barker. He remains actively engaged with public policy and regularly provides guidance to journalists, think tanks, and congressional staff on tax law.
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