<\/p>\n
Russell Findlay: \u2018we need to get Scotland working\u2019 (pic: DB Media Services)<\/p>\n
Scottish Conservatives have put income tax cuts and easing the cost of doing business at the heart of the party\u2019s election manifesto.<\/p>\n
Leader Russell Findlay would reduce income tax by raising the point at which workers start paying, creating one lower rate of 19% and ending the freeze on the higher-rate threshold.<\/p>\n
The tax cuts would be paid for by the party\u2019s pledge to rein in the SNP\u2019s \u00a37 billion benefits bill and cut government bureaucracy.<\/p>\n
Mr Findlay says the plans are \u201ccomprehensive, costed and credible\u201d and the most detailed ever produced by the Scottish Conservatives.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to get Scotland working after almost two dismal decades of SNP incompetence, failure and scandal,\u201d he will say a the manifesto launch in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n
\u201cThings do not have to be this bad. The mess that Scotland is in is the result of the wrong political choices made by SNP administrations.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur manifesto shows there can be a different way \u2013 a brighter, more prosperous way for everyone. <\/p>\n
\u201cA lower-tax Scotland, where people can keep and spend more of the money they graft for. A booming Scotland, where businesses can thrive. A functioning Scotland, generating the revenue we need to create infrastructure and public services fit for the 21st\u00a0Century.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Findlay says John Swinney will use an SNP majority \u201cto press ahead with his plan to hold a second, unwanted, divisive referendum on breaking up our country. We cannot allow him to plunge the next parliament into constitutional chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Conservatives have called for every new government policy to pass a \u2018growth test\u2019, lower business rates and the creation of Growth Scotland that would bring together the development agencies and the Scottish National Investment Bank. <\/p>\n
The party also wants to abolish Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) on primary residences and build 80,000 affordable homes over the lifetime of the next Scottish Parliament.<\/p>\n
\t #Tories #pledge #tax #cuts #business #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Russell Findlay: \u2018we need to get Scotland working\u2019 (pic: DB Media Services) Scottish Conservatives have…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[272,842,306,3543,6365,7364,7365,227,3387],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}