A MEMBER of the Scottish Cabinet has criticised a flagship BBC show for its discussion on tax on Tuesday morning's show.
It comes as new tax changes are set to come into force from Saturday, April 6 with Scotland set to have six tax bands overall.
“Therefore, there’s only about 33,000 people in Scotland pay this top rate of tax. Our proposition is that why don’t we get 100,000 people paying that top rate and the way we do it is to lower the top rate and then the tax take goes up. “If you’re married, I think you hit £51,000 so everyone earning over £51,000 pays a lot more earlier.”
“These are key recipes for growth and critical to Scotland’s future prosperity. In the meantime, our progressive tax regime sees most people in Scotland pay less tax than rUK while asking those who can to pay a bit more – a social contract helping insulate our people & public services from relentless UK austerity & providing services we all benefit from.
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