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- ↑ The day 250,000 warrants were issued over Glasgow’s refusal to pay poll tax, Glasgow Live, 15 January 2019
- ↑ Gross, David M. (2014). 99 Tactics of Successful Tax Resistance Campaigns. Picket Line Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-1490572741.
- ↑ Protests, law and order in the twentieth century page 145
- ↑ http://www.militant.org.uk/PollTax.html
- ↑ Gross, David M. (2014). 99 Tactics of Successful Tax Resistance Campaigns. Picket Line Press. pp. 77–78. ISBN 978-1490572741.
