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Title    : Scottish Parliament: Motions and Amendments: 2003 S1M-3809
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S1M-3809 Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP) :  Abolition of Council Tax— That
the Parliament believes that the council tax is a fundamentally unfair and
regressive tax; believes in social justice and the redistribution of wealth
from the rich to the poor; therefore agrees to abolish the council tax and
replace it with the Scottish Service Tax which is based on an individual's
income and is inherently fairer, more efficient and redistributive; notes
that this tax would raise more revenue than the council tax and that it
would remove the burden of paying for local government jobs and services
from the shoulders of low-paid workers and pensioners and place it firmly
on the shoulders of the well-paid and the wealthy, and believes that the
introduction of this tax should be complemented by the return of the right
for local authorities to raise and retain their business rates and a
thorough investigation of land value and speculation taxes to supplement
local authority revenue. 

Lodged on 27 January 2003; taken in the Chamber on 30 January 2003 

See S1M-3809.1 


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S1M-3809.1 Peter Peacock (Highlands and Islands) (Lab) :  Abolition of
Council Tax— As an amendment to motion S1M-3809 in the name of Tommy
Sheridan (Abolition of Council Tax), leave out from first "believes" to end
and insert "notes that the Local Government Committee, in its 6th Report
2002, Report on Inquiry into Local Government Finance, published in March
last year, saw no merit in the Scottish service tax as outlined in evidence
to it." 

Supported by: Mr Andy Kerr 

Lodged on 29 January 2003; taken in the Chamber on 30 January 2003 

See S1M-3809


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