Washington Post forced to correct glaring error about Scotland's tax system

Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of the Washington Post, has blocked its columnists from writing any articles that are not in favour of his right-wing views (Image: AP)

THE Washington Post has been forced to issue a correction after its editorial board – which is closely controlled by the billionaire Amazon owner Jeff Bezos – made a wildly incorrect claim about Scotland’s tax system.

The right-wing US newspaper, in a “leader” article expressing its own opinions, had claimed that the SNP Government’s changes to the top rate of income tax had cost the country “somewhere between £15 billion and £30 billion in revenue after increasing the top tax rate to 48 percent”.