Plans tabled by Edinburgh SNP councillors to raise council tax by 20 per cent for people living in the highest band properties have been thwarted after being ruled unlawful, it is understood.
The opposition group announced this week it would put forward proposals to 'reform' council tax in the capital.
Council tax increases are usually applied across the board but they said a "novel use of existing but rarely used local authority statutory powers" would allow rates to be frozen for those in the lowest bands and "avert the need for sweeping cuts."
