Council tax freeze isn’t a progressive policy LAST week’s big surprise was the announcement of a council tax freeze across Scotland for 2024/25.
The policy was launched during the First Minister’s closing speech on the last day of the SNP’s conference in Aberdeen and was surprising for a number of reasons.
That proposal wasn’t seen as particularly progressive as council tax is ostensibly based upon 1991 property valuations and is a crude device to assess the ability to pay. More perplexing is the presentation of a council tax freeze as a cost-of-living measure. People who don’t have any money or savings don’t have to pay council tax and will be eligible for a full council tax reduction.
So far, no detailed costings have been provided for the council tax freeze but there is a pledge from the Scottish Government to “fully fund” it.
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