Question reference: S2W-25173
- Asked by: Bristow Muldoon, MSP for Livingston, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 11 April 2006
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Current status: Answered by George Lyon on 8 May 2006
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what rate of local income tax would require to be set for each of the 32 local authorities in order to replace the budgeted yield from council tax for 2006-07, on the basis that local income tax would be paid on all income currently taxed at either the standard rate or the higher rate of national income tax.
Answer
Budgeted council tax yields areavailable from council tax returns submitted by councils in March 2006, and areprovided separately in the reply to the answer to question S2W-25172 on 8 May. Thereis no centrally held estimate of local income tax rates that would replace theseyields for each local authority in Scotland.
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