CBI wants council tax freeze maintained
A BUSINESS group has urged ministers to keep the council tax freeze amid calls to scrap the policy.
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said the freeze was helping bring about "fairer" levels of tax across Scotland's 32 local authorities.
Its intervention follows calls from the leader of Glasgow City Council, the largest authority in Scotland, to ditch the flagship SNP policy.
CBI Scotland director Iain McMillan said politicians should think carefully before increasing council tax next April. He said it rose by 47 per cent in the ten years before the freeze, while inflation, measured by the Retail Prices Index (RPI), increased by only 32 per cent in the same period. Using the Consumer Prices Index, the gap was "even greater".
Mr McMillan said: "It is hardly surprising there was growing resentment against the high level of this tax in the previous decade."
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