A new income tax band of 44 per cent has been proposed, kicking in for those who earn over £75,000 per year
The unions have set a deadline of Wednesday for an improved proposal to be put forward, with council leaders meeting on Tuesday to discuss their options.could avert such strikes by paying workers fairly, suggesting that this could be done by taxing the wealthy.
“We’ve got a Budget coming up, there are things that the Scottish Government could and should be doing to bring in more revenue to invest in our public services,” she told the BBC’s“We need to look at changing our council tax system, we should be revaluing our property and land, we should be taxing wealth more effectively.
“A very immediate thing that we would welcome the Government looking at is a higher tax banding for people earning, for instance, over £75,000 a year. “There are many different steps that could be taken…Government needs to start looking seriously at how we take the wealth that is in our economy and redistribute it so that we have got first-class public services and that we’re paying public sector workers fairly.”proposed a new income tax band in Scotland of 44 per cent, which would apply to incomes of between £75,000 and £125,140 per year.
It also suggested the creation of an “annual wealth tax” of 1 per cent, which could be levied on the 12 per cent of Scottish households with a total wealth of over £1m.The Scottish Government was approached for comment.
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