Article: Beggs pledge to fight against local income tax proposal.

Article: Robey Raises Prospect of Higher Local Income ...
The Washington Post;  January 23, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... County Council to raise the local income tax, among others, even if his ... s is 2.56 percent. The local income tax rate is set by the county ... with the state income tax. The local income tax is then collected by the state ...

Article: Call for local income tax to finance ...
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  December 28, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... suggests replacing council tax by local income tax should be seriously considered ... bills. The report says, 'A local income tax has a number of advantages ... income tax base, and that a local income tax is less distorting than most ...

Article: Salmond's local income tax 'will hamper bid ...
The Scotsman;  September 26, 2008 ;     700+ words ...THE local income tax proposed by Alex Salmond will damage ... the Scottish Government drop its local income tax (LIT) plans. Mr Salmond insisted ... that not only did Scots want a local income tax but the "vast majority" of workers ...

Article: Meals tax more palatable than local income ...
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR);  May 4, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... of the failed-in-November local income tax proposal. On the front page ... federal timber payments. A local income tax is not the only option. It ... nonresident suburban wage earners. A local income tax on individuals and businesses ...

Article: Salmond urged to drop local income tax.
The Daily Mail (London, England);  September 3, 2008 ;     617 words ... ... challenged to drop his plans for a local income tax when he puts forward his legislative ... council tax and replace it with a local income tax have been lambasted by business ... going to do on the discredited local income tax plans. Will he publish the ...

Article: Council tax rises `at least 10pc' warning; It's time to bring in ...
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  November 4, 2003 ;     647 words ... ... to replace the burden with a local income tax. Mr German said the Assembly ... Raynsford wanted to look at local income tax in more detail amid rising public ... could lead to Labour adding local income tax on top of council tax ...

Article: Don't be fooled: local income tax is a ...
The Scotsman;  April 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... rigorously apply to the current proposals for local income tax. Switching from council tax to a local income tax has tiptoed up the political ladder on ... any way robust, it is astonishing that local income tax was not introduced years ago and the ...