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Article: Scottish nationalists reject proposal to increase tax-raising powers
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- June 16, 2009
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SCOTTISH NATIONALISTS have dismissed proposals from a commission
appointed by the unionist parties for a "radical" increase in the
tax-raising powers of the Holyrood parliament.
The Scottish Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties
established the Calman Commission to review the devolution
settlement 10 years on - and in answer to first minister Alex
Salmond's "national conversation" about the path to possible
Scottish independence.
Yesterday, as expected, Sir Kenneth Calman proposed that the
Scottish parliament be responsible for half the income tax raised in
Scotland - in return for a cut in the current favourable block grant
of some pound(s)32 billion that Scotland receives from ...