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poll tax


Tax of a uniform amount levied on each individual.

The most famous British poll tax was the one levied in 1380, a main cause of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt. In the U.S., poll taxes were used as a voting prerequisite in the southern states; when payment was made a prerequisite to voting, impoverished blacks (and often poor whites) were effectively denied the vote. In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could not levy a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in state and local elections
Brittanica Encylopaedia

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Ranuhandoko, I.P.M. 2003. Terminologi Hukum Inggeris-Indonesia. Jakarta: Sinar Grafika.

Seperti disebutkan di atas, umat beragama diharuskan membayar *pajak kepala* (*head/poll tax*), dan sebagai imbalannya perlindungan dan kedamaian menjadi hak mereka; dengan demikian mereka dikenal sebagai "orang-orang yang dilindungi."
http://media.isnet.org/antar/Esposito/Non-Islam.html

In Yogyakarta, as in the principalities generally, the much-disliked *poll-tax* (*pajak kepala* or hoofdgeld) levied on all landholding peasants (kuli) had not yet been abolished as it had been in the regions under direct Dutch rule.
http://www.knaw.nl/indonesia/transition/workshop/2004_11.pdf

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