MSPs in bid to abolish '˜unfair' council tax
The SNP had promised to abolish the charge when it was first elected to power in 2007, with ministers forced to go back on this two years later as there was “no consensus” in Holyrood for the change. Since then the Scottish Government has made some reforms to the charge.
The Greens have already told SNP ministers they want changes to be made if they are to support the government’s budget next year.
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Hide AdAndy Wightman, the party’s local government spokesman, said that at the moment the public was “being penalised with an outdated, unfair system under which most households are paying the wrong amount”.
He added: “We have a chance to build on the agreement struck during the 2015 cross-party Commission on Local Tax Reform that the present council tax system must end.”