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Burning Issue: Does consultation show local income tax would be fair and popular?

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Published Date: 25 November 2008
Yes

JOE FITZPATRICK
SNP MSP and member of Holyrood's finance committee
IN THE Scottish election, council tax was one of the biggest issues on the doorstep. Most people I spoke to wanted the unfair council tax to be scrapped and replaced with a system based on ability to pay. The results of the government's consultation ...



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1

gus1940,

Edinburgh 25/11/2008 08:07:08
That's 2 days in a row that Kerr has been given the opportunity to spout his anti-SNP bile.

Is he on the JP payroll now?
2

Walter Ego,

Durness 25/11/2008 10:40:35
Joe, you should have stuck to Dundee City Council.

When people who are not liable to pay Council Tax realise that they would be liable to pay local income tax, all hell will break loose - as it did when Thatcher introduced the poll tax.

 

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