From what I can see my local councils (South Lanarkshire and Glasgow) don’t have enough money and could do with additional funds.
They have currently agreed to the governments tax freeze, I wonder if they will follow argyle and Bute in raising council tax.
I also wonder what the Scottish govs reaction to this will be (both in the immediate term and in future budgets/council tax plans), will they increase council funding to maintain their freeze, scrap the freeze, or try and make an example out of the council.
bit mixed on this, on one hand money is tight and I could do without a whopper of an increase. On the other, councils have had 14 years of austerity, and have been starved of cash, I can see the impact of that everywhere.
Tory run council. Do you expect them to care about struggling families. Would be interesting to see what the spending plan is for the increase being imposed.
Lots of people on here with short memories.
Local authorities were profligate with their money and annual poll tax rises were outstripping inflation. The. The Government stepped in and offered additional funds to Town Halls if they froze Tax. There was no way that Government could impose a freeze, these were all voluntary.
To be fair (as hard as that can be if it’s a Tory run council), as others have said councils have been brutalised in budget terms for some time now, with no relief. One of my bigger gripes with the SNP is their eagerness for centralisation and apparent dislike of empowering councils in many respects. Although much of that is probably more about austerity and its legacy than anything particularly enshrined in SNP policy.
The solution of course is more central government funding, and less being levied through local taxes on people who aren’t necessarily able to absorb the cost easily. But to get that cash the central gov has to tax wealth somehow which it cannot do without getting pelted by very powerful groups. The income tax rise is at least a little less regressive, but really, the big money is hidden a long way away from income
Mind when pound coins looked like that? FS get a new image.
Remember that all is this was caused when Yousaf decided to announce a new policy on a whim to try and get some support at the SNP conference.
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From what I can see my local councils (South Lanarkshire and Glasgow) don’t have enough money and could do with additional funds.
They have currently agreed to the governments tax freeze, I wonder if they will follow argyle and Bute in raising council tax.
I also wonder what the Scottish govs reaction to this will be (both in the immediate term and in future budgets/council tax plans), will they increase council funding to maintain their freeze, scrap the freeze, or try and make an example out of the council.
bit mixed on this, on one hand money is tight and I could do without a whopper of an increase. On the other, councils have had 14 years of austerity, and have been starved of cash, I can see the impact of that everywhere.
Tory run council. Do you expect them to care about struggling families. Would be interesting to see what the spending plan is for the increase being imposed.
Lots of people on here with short memories.
Local authorities were profligate with their money and annual poll tax rises were outstripping inflation. The. The Government stepped in and offered additional funds to Town Halls if they froze Tax. There was no way that Government could impose a freeze, these were all voluntary.
To be fair (as hard as that can be if it’s a Tory run council), as others have said councils have been brutalised in budget terms for some time now, with no relief. One of my bigger gripes with the SNP is their eagerness for centralisation and apparent dislike of empowering councils in many respects. Although much of that is probably more about austerity and its legacy than anything particularly enshrined in SNP policy.
The solution of course is more central government funding, and less being levied through local taxes on people who aren’t necessarily able to absorb the cost easily. But to get that cash the central gov has to tax wealth somehow which it cannot do without getting pelted by very powerful groups. The income tax rise is at least a little less regressive, but really, the big money is hidden a long way away from income
Mind when pound coins looked like that? FS get a new image.
Remember that all is this was caused when Yousaf decided to announce a new policy on a whim to try and get some support at the SNP conference.