SNP’s Local Income Tax bombshell explodes

Today's Daily Telegraph reports the full extent of the SNP's cover up on Local Income Tax.

The report states that the First Minister's senior economic adviser estimated there would be a shortfall of almost £800 million this year between what Council Tax would raise and the SNP's suggested Local Income Tax replacement - and that the real figure for the tax was 4.5p, not 3p as the SNP continually told us.

Annabel Goldie, Scottish Conservative Leader, said:

"The truth is out. Alex Salmond's local income tax bombshell has exploded all over his election campaign.

"He has spent tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money to try and hide the truth. But now we know that his pretence of a 3p local income tax rate was just a sham.

"His senior economic advisor told him the real figure was 4.5p. That is a 50% hike and would have meant tax bills hundreds of pound a year higher for families the length and breadth of Scotland.

"And today we also learn that his desperate attempt to block the release of the papers ignored the fact that a similar case was thrown out by the Court of Session 4 years ago.

"Alex Salmond owes Scotland an apology. He hid the truth. He refused to come clean when challenged. He misled Scotland. That is shameful and shoddy."

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