The SNP was forced to back an amendment to its local income tax (LIT) proposal put forward in Scottish Parliament by two Green MSPs in return for their support to block Labour's attempt to defeat LIT.
The Green amendment opened up consultation to replace the council tax with other alternatives, including their own land-value tax and was carried by 65 votes to 61 after being backed by the SNP and Lib Dems against a Labour-Tory coalition, the Scotsman reports.
Labour MSP Andy Kerr opening the debate at Holyrood yesterday, labelling SNP's plan ‘the Nat tax’, claiming it was ‘getting a worse reception than Thatcher's poll tax’, while senior Tory MSP David McLetchie doubted the Scottish Parliament had the power to introduce it.
Tory finance spokesman Derek Brownlee said the SNP plan had escaped its ‘day of reckoning’ because the Green amendment gave it the chance to continue.
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