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Between the lines - Taxing questions for SNP from Scotland's businesses



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Published Date: 18 July 2008
By Peter Jones
ARE the warm relations between Scottish business and the Scottish National Party government about to turn chilly?
It certainly looks that way judging by the business responses to the consultation on the SNP's plans for a local income tax, which closes today. Rarely have I seen such a universally hostile response to any government proposal.

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  • Last Updated: 17 July 2008 8:42 PM
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Peter Curran,

Kirkliston 18/07/2008 07:22:44
Employees who move to another country to live and work expect and accept that there will be differences in their patterns of expenditure because of differences in tax and prices. Companies have always had support policies to handle this - no multinational could survive without them. I worked at senior level in human resources for many years and subsequently in management consultancy, advising companies on compensation and benefit policies, among other things. Not one of them regarded this aspect of employee compensation as other than a standard, routine operational feature of multinational mobility, and employees accepted the differences, although they bitched about them, naturally.
I think we have to look elsewhere for the roots of the opposition among the senior managers and directors of the complaining companies. One can speculate, but runs the risk of being accused of seeing diehard unionists under the bed. I will content myself by saying that senior businessmen and women, although they have a glamourised image of themselves as buccaneering risk-takers, are innately cautious and conservative, and have a deep suspicion of change they did not themselves initiate, especially fiscal change.

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gus1940,

Edinburgh 18/07/2008 08:41:22
Yet another attack on the SNP from the political tract masquerading as a newspaper.

 

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