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What is a poll tax?

What is a poll tax? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A tax determined as a uniform, fixed amount per individual.
  2. (US) A tax that must be paid in order to vote.
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After the poll tax was defeated in 1991 Scottish Militant Labour was launched as an open political party.
Already the voices of protest are growing louder and scenes reminiscent of the poll tax rebellion may not be far away.
But the worst was an old bird who shouted at me about the poll tax and blamed me for Black Wednesday.
Nothing destroys governmental authority more than an unenforceable law, as the poll tax demonstrated.
The poll tax revolts are a warning of the fury that changes to local authority finances can trigger.
The Government is deliberately fleecing young people by charging them an outrageous poll tax on their first home.

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