THE Scottish Government’s plans for a sweeping redesign of the local council system could be “disastrous” if council tax is not reformed at the same time, one of Scotland’s most senior trade unionists has warned.
Speaking to The National at the SNP conference in Aberdeen, Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) deputy general secretary Dave Moxham said there were “massive inequities” in how council tax is collected and to “bake that into a new system would be an absolute disaster”.
