Synopsis
As local authorities prepare to send out the bills for the new council tax, Dispatches reveals how the government spent more than £20 billion to end up much as it began with a property tax.
- Programme: Dispatches
- Episode: A Tax Too Far
- Channel: Channel 4
- Broadcast year: 1993
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