Instead the money went to ensuring “the rich” paid less on their council tax bills
“It’s important to the Greens that the richest pay the most to support public services like our NHS. That’s why we’ve secured a series of tax changes since 2018…”
Not sure many people would agree that a salary of £28.5k and above makes you ‘rich’. There are many people being taxed more than their counterparts in England and Wales who are nowhere near being able to afford their own home, are they rich?
The latest increases don’t target the richest either. The highest earners I know are either paid in dividends via a limited company in their name or their employer pays a significant portion of their salary in shares. Neither of these payment schemes are impacted.
Those who are impacted will likely increase their pension contributions to avoid paying marginal tax rates of up to 69.5%. Not only does that reduce income tax revenue but it reduces their spending too. Less income tax and less money spent in the wider economy.
That aside, businesses in Scotland will struggle to recruit from the rest of the UK for high paying jobs the more the tax gap widens. Someone earning £50k a year in Leeds would lose £1,500 a year if they moved to Edinburgh. Take a doctor on over £100k and that figure doubles.
Once again, a policy based solely in ideology and without scratching the surface of practical. Like the guy who suggested more people get bikes instead of dualling the A9.
Cool.
I earned £45000 before tax, after tax and pension, I live in a far from luxury lifestyle and pay my mortgage alone. I do not consider myself rich. Yet I was taxed at the same rate bands as say somebody earning £80000 – insane logic.
Yawn, how about cutting spending down to parity with the rest of the country? No? Ok, so just punishing barely middle earners. Good job, extremists.
The Scottish Greens are ensuring penury for us all.
Scotland’s nasty party.
The least serious political party in the country
Paying for the mistakes of their government, more like. Even their own most optimistic figures of how much this will raise barely make a dent in the ferry failure, aluminum smelter, DRS failure, legal fees for malicious prosecutions and other cases they knew they could never win, vanity outposts in foreign countries, foreign aid that was never what the Scottish budget was intended to cover, a council tax freeze that councils didn’t ask for, free prescriptions when we could have made them free only for those who needed it (as we do in rUK). The cost is many times what it will raise, as it drives away the people Scotland needs more of, and discourages them from coming in the first place. Even if you don’t want more computer scientists, lawyers and entrepreneurs in Scotland (and you really should, because they are creating wealth here), remember this is affecting senior nurses, dentists, GPs and surgeons too. Madness.
Why is all the noise being made about this, which is a drop in the ocean and the massive, harmful cuts to council tax which the SNP has willingly implemented being ignored?
That ferry will soon be ready
Big self congratulatory applause for them, I’m glad that it was an easy answer, and that public services will continue to run just fine. Saves them having to work out how to encourage investment into the country, increasing average wages, promoting skilled immigration and overall widening of the tax base.
Hard to imagine there will be any negative effects here.
Once again confusing ‘income’ with ‘wealth’.
Ah yes, the Scottish oligarchs on 43k
It’s rather concerning that these kiddy-on politicians are anywhere near the halls of power in Scotland. With a mandate (?) that seems made up as they go along, their exchanges at Holyrood are frankly embarrassing, and seem to bring nothing but division and derision in equal measure.
Yet they are given credence because for no other reason other than being useful idiots for the presiding party.
The smug boy is bragging how they have increased social security spending and are helping children.
Shouldn’t the Greens be opposed to Social security on principle?
The worst thing you can do for the environment is have a family with children. By giving more to help children they are actively encouraging population growth and thus worsening the climate emergency.
If we remove all child benefit and slap some extra taxes on people with children only the rich would breed. This will decrease the population and reduce our carbon footprint something massive.
Obviously this is an insane idea… but shouldn’t the greens support it? It aligns with their core principles, why do they support the opposite? Oh, right. They don’t actually have any principles. They are just a bunch of well-off, disconnected, clueless fanatics that lack any real purpose in their lives. If they were in the 10th century they would join the People’s crusade and get killed trying to loot cheese from a Serbian village.
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I don’t think the rich were impacted you daft shite.
The increase in the top rate above £125k is forecast to raise just £8m after behavioural changes.
The greatest income tax increase in this budget comes from the fiscal drag of keeping the higher rate threshold at £43,662.
The Scottish Greens going after nurses and teachers, not the rich.
And how much are we still paying for Circularity Scotland?
They have no way of ensuring that “the rich” (anyone on £43k…) don’t just shovel more into our pensions and salary sacrifice. It’s what I’ll be doing.
Meanwhile
>[IPPR Scotland, a progressive think tank, said the cash allocated for the [Council tax] freeze could have been used for a huge boost to the Scottish Child Payment for low income families.](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/snp-council-tax-freeze-keeps-31718569)
Instead the money went to ensuring “the rich” paid less on their council tax bills
“It’s important to the Greens that the richest pay the most to support public services like our NHS. That’s why we’ve secured a series of tax changes since 2018…”
Not sure many people would agree that a salary of £28.5k and above makes you ‘rich’. There are many people being taxed more than their counterparts in England and Wales who are nowhere near being able to afford their own home, are they rich?
The latest increases don’t target the richest either. The highest earners I know are either paid in dividends via a limited company in their name or their employer pays a significant portion of their salary in shares. Neither of these payment schemes are impacted.
Those who are impacted will likely increase their pension contributions to avoid paying marginal tax rates of up to 69.5%. Not only does that reduce income tax revenue but it reduces their spending too. Less income tax and less money spent in the wider economy.
That aside, businesses in Scotland will struggle to recruit from the rest of the UK for high paying jobs the more the tax gap widens. Someone earning £50k a year in Leeds would lose £1,500 a year if they moved to Edinburgh. Take a doctor on over £100k and that figure doubles.
Once again, a policy based solely in ideology and without scratching the surface of practical. Like the guy who suggested more people get bikes instead of dualling the A9.
Cool.
I earned £45000 before tax, after tax and pension, I live in a far from luxury lifestyle and pay my mortgage alone. I do not consider myself rich. Yet I was taxed at the same rate bands as say somebody earning £80000 – insane logic.
Yawn, how about cutting spending down to parity with the rest of the country? No? Ok, so just punishing barely middle earners. Good job, extremists.
The Scottish Greens are ensuring penury for us all.
Scotland’s nasty party.
The least serious political party in the country
Paying for the mistakes of their government, more like. Even their own most optimistic figures of how much this will raise barely make a dent in the ferry failure, aluminum smelter, DRS failure, legal fees for malicious prosecutions and other cases they knew they could never win, vanity outposts in foreign countries, foreign aid that was never what the Scottish budget was intended to cover, a council tax freeze that councils didn’t ask for, free prescriptions when we could have made them free only for those who needed it (as we do in rUK). The cost is many times what it will raise, as it drives away the people Scotland needs more of, and discourages them from coming in the first place. Even if you don’t want more computer scientists, lawyers and entrepreneurs in Scotland (and you really should, because they are creating wealth here), remember this is affecting senior nurses, dentists, GPs and surgeons too. Madness.
Why is all the noise being made about this, which is a drop in the ocean and the massive, harmful cuts to council tax which the SNP has willingly implemented being ignored?
That ferry will soon be ready
Big self congratulatory applause for them, I’m glad that it was an easy answer, and that public services will continue to run just fine. Saves them having to work out how to encourage investment into the country, increasing average wages, promoting skilled immigration and overall widening of the tax base.
Hard to imagine there will be any negative effects here.
Once again confusing ‘income’ with ‘wealth’.
Ah yes, the Scottish oligarchs on 43k
It’s rather concerning that these kiddy-on politicians are anywhere near the halls of power in Scotland. With a mandate (?) that seems made up as they go along, their exchanges at Holyrood are frankly embarrassing, and seem to bring nothing but division and derision in equal measure.
Yet they are given credence because for no other reason other than being useful idiots for the presiding party.
The smug boy is bragging how they have increased social security spending and are helping children.
Shouldn’t the Greens be opposed to Social security on principle?
The worst thing you can do for the environment is have a family with children. By giving more to help children they are actively encouraging population growth and thus worsening the climate emergency.
If we remove all child benefit and slap some extra taxes on people with children only the rich would breed. This will decrease the population and reduce our carbon footprint something massive.
Obviously this is an insane idea… but shouldn’t the greens support it? It aligns with their core principles, why do they support the opposite? Oh, right. They don’t actually have any principles. They are just a bunch of well-off, disconnected, clueless fanatics that lack any real purpose in their lives. If they were in the 10th century they would join the People’s crusade and get killed trying to loot cheese from a Serbian village.
The greens must be stopped.
Good.