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Written by Dr Craig Dalȝell on 2025-01-19 at 11:11

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/snp-government-wealth-tax-social-security-bill-shona-robison-scottish-labour-4949201

Holyrood already has the power to introduce a wealth tax (particularly a land tax: https://commonweal.scot/policies/taxing-land-in-scotland/) only with the caveat that the revenue must support local services (meaning it's easiest to do if the power is devolved to Local Authorities).

That, of course, means Holyrood can't control the cash.

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Written by Dr Craig Dalȝell on 2025-01-19 at 11:26

Not that this ask is unwelcome or that I wouldn't support it. Personally I think the UK would benefit from more subsidiarity and, within the context of Wesminster sovereignty, that would involve all levels of Government having the ability to ask for more powers and for the controlling power above them to presume consent unless they can give a compelling reason to the contrary.

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Written by Peter Brown on 2025-01-19 at 13:33

@thecommongreen That would be democracy.

Not going to happen .

Actually though, for democracy to function it needs to be transparent and having different councils with different levels of responsibilities does make transparency a lot more difficult. It was bad enough when there were regions and districts with different responsibilities, often overlapping.

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Written by Dr Craig Dalȝell on 2025-01-19 at 13:43

@peterbrown Something that could probably be sorted out with a constitutionally founded federal system...but that's about as likely to happen as the other plan.

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