A senior trade union official has said that the proposed rises in council tax would only be "tinkering around the edges" and called for the tax to be scrapped. The Daily Record reported last week that one in four Scots could face a 22.5 per cent rise in council tax. The plans were revealed in a leaked paper from local authority body Cosla.
No final decision has yet been made on the plans and it is unclear when the consultation will take place. Technical changes to the calculations behind council tax - called 'multipliers' - have been proposed. A similar plan led to big rises for people in band E, F, G and H properties in 2017.
Deputy general secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) Dave Moxham said the organisation supports the increases, but the system must be scrapped and replaced.
