Rennie comments on IFS council tax report

Responding to today's IFS report into council tax, Scottish Liberal Democrat economy spokesperson Willie Rennie said:

“The SNP and Greens are plotting a wave of council tax rises during the worst cost of living crisis for generations.

"The nationalists have been in government promising to abolish the council tax for 16 years, yet they keep finding excuses to prolong it and extend the lifetime of the current unfair system

"So many properties are in the wrong bands. It's clear that the broken system needs replaced.

“The Scottish Government’s comparisons with England are false as the bands are different so claims of paying less here don’t stack up.

“There is no guarantee that services will be saved even if bills were to go up because the SNP/Green Government’s systematic underfunding of local government has been so devastating for so long. People will end up paying more for less because nationalist ministers are so hopeless at getting the economy going."