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The businessman’s warning came as Mr Swinney urged MSPs to approve a package of new powers for Holyrood,cheap real jordans, which includes income tax, and ahead of Nicola Sturgeon today setting out her plans to replace council tax.
Alex Neil,cheap jordans for sale, the SNP’s Social Justice Minister, yesterday rejected Tory claims that using the new powers to increase welfare payments would lead to a “benefits stampede” from England that would have to be funded by Scottish taxpayers.
Holyrood is gaining control over a series of new taxes Photo: Fotolia
Mr Walker praised economic development quango Scottish Enterprise for its help in building the biotech company through merger and acquisition but said: “On the negative side, one of our acquisitions is in London and people will not move to Scotland.
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Mr Swinney controversially set LBTT at 10 per cent of the purchase price above ?325,000, increasing to 12 per cent for the tranche above ?750,000. This prompted a sharp decline in high-end property transactions when the levy was introduced last year.
Those buying a ?400,000 home pay ?3,350 more than under stamp duty in England, with the tax bill increasing by ?8,350 for ?500,000 properties and by ?20,850 for those buying a ?750,000 home
Ms Sturgeon has signalled she intends to take the same &#x201crogressive” approach with income tax and council tax by asking the wealthy to pay more.
Speaking in Edinburgh today, she is expected to con... to overhaul council tax and assign a share of income tax revenues to local authorities as an incentive for them to increase economic growth.
Responding to Mr Walker, Mr Swinney said: "I accept that on higher value properties there is a differential with the rest of the UK. On personal taxation the government has to think carefully about behavioural responses."
But he added: "People have to look at this in the round. They will find here a greater cohesiveness than the rest of the UK."
The SNP has promised to make it easier to apply for benefits after its welfare powers are devolved, prompting Tory warnings that they will “undo all the good progress” made by the UK Government in getting claimants back to work.
But Mr Neil told MSPs a “benefits stampede” was “inconceivable”, arguing: “I don't see people deliberately trying to make themselves disabled or ill in order to come to Scotland to claim a benefit.”