ALEX Salmond has slapped down one of his senior MSPs after he suggested Holyrood should raise the top rate of income tax above 50%, prompting opposition claims of a government split on tax.
ALEX Salmond has slapped down one of his senior MSPs after he suggested Holyrood should raise the top rate of income tax above 50%, prompting opposition claims of a government split on tax.
The suggestion by backbencher John Mason, right, that the top rate of tax should rise has been dismissed by Alex Salmond
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INVESTIGATION by Tom Gordon Scottish Political Editor
John Mason, deputy convener of Parliament’s finance committee, told the Sunday Herald the top rate should go up once Edinburgh acquires increa- sed powers over income tax in 2015.
However, the First Minister’s spokesman last night dismissed Mason’s views out of hand and the division allowed Labour and the Tories to claim the SNP was “all over the place” on tax.
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