07 September 2008

Public support for LIT collapses

Posted by Scottish Unionist at 3:22 PM. There are 3 comments.
Not before time, but it looks as though the reality has finally started to hit home. Today’s Sunday Times reports that since the Holyrood election, support for the SNP’s superficially attractive but ultimately malformed Local Income Tax proposal has fallen from 88 per cent to just 46 per cent, as the various ramifications of their unfair and arguably illegal flagship policy have sunk in.

3 comments
  1. D Thomson September 7, 2008 5:44 PM  

    Haha, I like your linking. Oh, and boo to LIT.

  2. The Aberdonian September 9, 2008 9:40 AM  

    I can see the legal questions, but surely for its faults (see my previous post) the tax is less unfair than the present system. At least it is built around the ability to pay.

    What do you personally want?

    New bands?
    Peter Birts 1% on the market value of the property - Edinburgh in revolt?
    Poll Tax!?!?!
    Exemptions on all pensioners (regardless whether they can pay or not?)
    We all donate 100 bushells of corn to the council?

  3. Scottish Unionist September 13, 2008 6:17 PM  

    The Burt Review said:

    “A local income tax might be less 'fair', its yield would be less predictable and it would place a major administrative burden on taxpayers, employers, local and central government ... Property taxes are better suited for use as a local tax than income tax.”

    In my opinion, the only major problem with council tax is that it was allowed to increase above inflation.

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