Editing Poll tax (section)

==New Zealand==
{{Main|New Zealand head tax}}
New Zealand imposed a poll tax on Chinese immigrants during the 19th and early 20th centuries as part of their broader efforts to reduce the number of Chinese immigrants.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://natlib.govt.nz/events/the-poll-tax-on-chinese-in-new-zealand-what-s-it-all-about-november-06-2019|title=The Poll Tax on Chinese in New Zealand: what's it all about? &#124; Events &#124; National Library of New Zealand|website=natlib.govt.nz|access-date=20 November 2020|archive-date=28 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728092420/https://natlib.govt.nz/events/the-poll-tax-on-chinese-in-new-zealand-what-s-it-all-about-november-06-2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> The poll tax was effectively lifted in the 1930s following the [[Second Sino-Japanese War|invasion of China by Japan]], and was finally repealed in 1944. Prime Minister [[Helen Clark]] offered New Zealand's Chinese community an official apology for the poll tax on 12 February 2002.<ref name="New Zealand Chinese Poll Tax Apology">{{cite web
 |last       = New Zealand Office of Ethnic Affairs
 |author-link = New Zealand Office of Ethnic Affairs
 |year       = 2002
 |url        = http://www.dia.govt.nz/oeawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/What-We-Do-Consultations-Formal-Apology
 |title      = Chinese Poll Tax in New Zealand – Formal Apology
 |publisher  = New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs
 |access-date = 18 August 2006
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