The Scottish Conservatives, who had called for tax cuts and reduced welfare spending, have criticised the Budget.<\/p>\n
The party’s finance spokesman, Craig Hoy, said: “Tens of thousands more nurses, teachers and police officers on relatively modest salaries are being dragged into the higher rate, which was never intended for them.<\/p>\n
“The SNP’s vindictive tax on aspiration is stifling Scotland’s economic performance by making it harder and harder for businesses to recruit and retain skilled individuals.” <\/p>\n
The Scottish Greens said they had secured concessions from the government on a “mansion tax” and a new levy on private jets, earmarked for 2028. <\/p>\n
However, co-leader Ross Greer said the government could “go further”, calling for measures to cut the cost of transport and childcare.<\/p>\n
He said: “Labour may have walked away having achieved nothing, but the Scottish Greens will continue working to secure more changes which save families money and protect our planet.”<\/p>\n
Liberal Democrat finance spokesman Jamie Greene said he was “pleased to see that many of the Liberal Democrat asks” in the draft Budget. <\/p>\n
However, he warned many companies are “facing choppy waters ahead” despite a package of transitional relief for businesses facing rising rates bills after a revaluation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Scottish Conservatives, who had called for tax cuts and reduced welfare spending, have criticised the Budget. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-695383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115893515320824992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}