{"id":1640,"date":"2020-06-02T10:41:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T10:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2020-06-02T10:41:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T10:41:49","slug":"free-money-for-scotland-by-changing-holyrood-tax-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/free-money-for-scotland-by-changing-holyrood-tax-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Free money for Scotland by changing Holyrood tax policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>You&#8217;d need a good reason to consider moving tax from wages to site rents. The good reason is the avoidable DEADWEIGHT LOSS of at least \u00a3500 billion a year suffered by the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scotland&#8217;s share of those annual losses is at least \u00a338 billion, of which some \u00a312.8bn can be cancelled by Holyrood using existing devolved powers to replace Income Tax with AGR\/LVT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The progressive justice and fairness of Annual Ground Rent (aka LVT) is avoided like the plague by vested interests in control at Westminster. But why should Holyrood follow like a lapdog, sticking with the harmful taxes that work against the interests of Scots?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And could we not use an extra \u00a312.8bn\/yr of SHARED prosperity right now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/stigmir.slide1_-1024x710.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1641\" width=\"743\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/stigmir.slide1_-1024x710.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/stigmir.slide1_-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/stigmir.slide1_-768x533.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/stigmir.slide1_-1536x1066.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/stigmir.slide1_-825x572.jpg 825w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/stigmir.slide1_-1320x916.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/stigmir.slide1_.jpg 1646w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d need a good reason to consider moving tax from wages to site rents. The good reason is the avoidable DEADWEIGHT LOSS of at least \u00a3500 billion a year suffered by the UK. Scotland&#8217;s share of those annual losses is at least \u00a338 billion, of which some \u00a312.8bn can be cancelled by Holyrood using existing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}