Hamish Macdonell - LIT dead? Yes it is, at least for now.

JOHN Swinney has just confirmed he will ditch the LIT until after the next election.
He said: "We cannot put together a stable majority to enable us successully to steer detailed local income tax legislation through this parliament."
And he added: "The Cabinet has therefore decided not to introduce legislation to abolish the unfair council tax and replace it with a local income tx until after the election in 2011."
Mr Swinney did stress, however, that the SNP would fight the next election on a platform of scrapping the council tax and replacing it with the LIT.
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