Glasgow's fierce opposition to the highly controversial poll tax saw the council rack up approximately £125 million of uncollected community charge debt to the UK Government.
On January 15, 1990, Strathclyde Regional Council applied for 250,000 summary warrants against rate payers refusing to pay the poll tax.
READ MORE: Student who filmed Oasis 1993 Glasgow King Tut's gig shares how she captured historic moment Scotland, given the high number of council tenants, became strong and vocal in its resistance of the tax. And in Glasgow the national anti-poll tax movement - the All Britain Anti Poll Tax Federation - was born, one built on stopping bailiffs and fighting court cases.
The opposition to the tax culminated in the Poll Tax demo in Glasgow on March, 31, 1990, on the eve of the introduction south of the border, and was attended by approximately 50,000 people.
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