Anyone in Scotland earning more than £27,850 pays more income tax than if they lived south of the border. Those earning a £50,000 salary pay almost £1,500 per year extra.
SNP table plans to hike council tax by up to 22.5 per cent
SNP ministers must rein in spending rather than hitting Scots with more tax rises to plug a £1 billion financial black hole in their budget
Scotland's council tax bands, ranging from A to H, are based on a property's assumed capital value as of 1 April 1991, while newer properties are assigned a nominal 1991 value.
Some 28% of properties in Scotland are believed to be in the bands that would be impacted by the increases, but only 0.5% of them are in the highest council tax band.
Scottish Water have also approved a rise which is included in your bill alongside Council Tax
cause why not just kick us all in the gonads
Once again the SNP is asking ordinary Scots to foot the bill for its own economic failure
Among the other measures “in the pipeline” highlighted by the SRC were workplace parking levies, a tourism visitor tax, charges on disposable coffee cups and drinks bottles and cans and a an increase in council tax for second homes.
But the SRC submission warned that extra tax alone was “unlikely to be enough to plug the shortfall” and there should be a “candid review of spending and new thinking about how services are provided”.
feckin SNP