Letter: Raise land tax not 'Tesco Tax'

IT IS ironic that John Swinney is trying to raise £30 million from his anti-enterprise and jobs so-called 'Tesco Tax'. Scottish land law is under devolved powers to Holyrood and Scotland has approximately 30,000 square miles of land.

Recession enhancing and job destroying taxes could be replaced, not by another tax, but by collecting a nominal land rental value of 1m per 1,000 square miles to meet the required sum. By not collecting any new tax and reducing all imposts on productive labour and enterprise under devolved powers, by collecting rent only due on Scottish land, he could bypass Westminster restrictions at the same time as stimulating the Scottish economy.

Ron Greer, Blair Atholl