SNP Local Income Tax Cover-up

I am shocked, but not surprised, that the SNP is using taxpayers money to cover-up the true cost of their damaging Local Income Tax proposals. This is a level of secrecy and aversion to openness that those of us who have dealt with the SNP in Dundee have grown used to. For example, a report on the future of education in the city is not being made public despite the fact that it has been widely circulated.

Local Income Tax would hammer hardworking Dundee families during these tough times and make Scotland the highest-taxed part of the UK. Under the SNP plans, a couple on average wages in a modest home would pay over £500 a year more. Business organisations and trade unions are opposed to the totally discredited LIT and the damage it would do. Labour will freeze council tax for two years helping hard-pressed families through these tough times.