Scottish Service Tax

Council Tax is Scotland’s #1 debt issue: axe it now!

March 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Voice Reporter · As Scotland’s councils met to set their budget for the new financial year Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) revealed that amidst the tax hikes, cuts and job losses Council Tax ...

RISE to put indyref2, economic and social justice at centre of campaign

April 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Voice Reporter • The tax-dodging scandal exposed by the Panama papers showing the London money moguls up to their necks in hiding tax dodgers billions in what are effectively British colonies ...

Service Tax challenge to council austerity budgets

February 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Calum Martin, Edinburgh South & Midlothian SSP Council chambers across Scotland must be echoing with the sound of grating steel this week, as one after another, council administrations have ...

Greeks choose democracy over bankers’ barbarism

January 31, 2015 // 1 Comment

by Ken Ferguson, editor, Scottish Socialist Voice Will the needs of people be able to prevail over the extortion of the bankers and moneylenders driving austerity and misery across Europe? This is ...

Defy all cuts: there is an alternative

January 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser The contrast could not be starker. As the people of Greece give a resounding NO! to austerity, the councillors of Scotland are poised to vote YES to ...