Local Government Finance

As an amendment to motion S2M-03795 in the name of Mr John Swinney (Local Government Finance), leave out from “, and recognises” to end and insert “as many in Scotland are suffering as a result of the 55% rise in council tax since the Labour/Liberal Democrat coalition came to power; believes that a proposed new system of local income tax would be over-complicated, expensive to collect, would remove accountability and transparency from local government and adversely penalise young working households, and notes that the real problem in Scotland is the high level of council taxes charged, not the tax itself.”