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Tax plans would 'hurt students'



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MANY students in Edinburgh would be worse off under SNP plans to replace council tax with a local income tax, Lothians Tory MSP Gavin Brown claimed today.
He said the new tax would lead to working students being forced to pay despite the fact they do not have to pay council tax.

He said: "Currently, students do not pay council tax. It is estimated a student earning the minimum wage would pay if throughout the year they work 19 hours a week or more on average.

"There are many students in Edinburgh who do just that and they will be hurt."

But Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said students would gain from the scrapping of the graduate endowment charge.





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  • Last Updated: 18 April 2008 12:39 PM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Students in Edinburgh
 
1

Brian M,

Edinburgh 18/04/2008 13:14:10
How many students and how much worse off? Not many I think and not much at all?

An extra 3% on each declared pound over £6000 earned in Scotland in a year.

How many students in Edinburgh are earning that?
2

Brian M,

Edinburgh 18/04/2008 13:31:17
On earnings of £10000, a student would be worse off by £120 a year , ie £2.30 a week, so he/she would just have to forego one drink a week in the students' bar
3

A Friend of Fernando Poo,

, Newington 18/04/2008 14:03:30
Perhaps the problem is really that students don't pay Council Tax? That's easily fixed surely?

No Representation Without Taxation!
4

Brahann,

Fife 18/04/2008 14:28:36
Utter Dross..... How many students make £6000 per annum? and if they do, should they not be as liable to tax as OAP's?
5

a proud doonhamer,

Dumfries 18/04/2008 16:52:47
Tomorrows Headlines

Tax Plans would hurt "insert group of choice here"

Pitiful journalism.. so typical of this newspaper.
6

alanh,

ek 18/04/2008 20:34:33
how much would they have to earn before it would amount to the same as the nu lab/lib dums charged them for education with their stupid charges again?

will these poor students be the same ones that the abolishion of the 10% rate will hit or does that not matter
7

Brian M,

Edinburgh 18/04/2008 21:56:37
#5 agreed, Gavin Brown is spouting utter dross, these 'many' students who are earning money above the tax threshold should pay tax as every one else does
8

rsandas,

crail 19/04/2008 17:20:51
Can somebody tell me what a "hootsman" is? Is there such a thing?
9

rsandas,

crail 19/04/2008 18:43:52
#6-A Proud Hoonhammer
Your post hit the nail right on the head. You could not have said it better. When I read, the headline, I thought the same thing, but couldn't put it into the words you have done. Thanks.

 

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