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I said would!

As President of Pedants UK I must point out you posted 'now' then 'would' which caused the confusion. Why isn't increasing IT & abolishing CT a local IT?

Furthermore the Scottish tax to replace council tax is merely a suggestion which if adopted will be from 2012. They need it ratified by the English parliament to implement it.

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Originally posted by 555:

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I said would!

As President of Pedants UK I must point out you posted 'now' then 'would' which caused the confusion. Why isn't increasing IT & abolishing CT a local IT?

You win the award for pedantry! I should have said "now being considered".

I would differentiate what is being proposed for Scotland from a true local income tax in that it will not be set by and collected for the local authorities, but is in fact a Scottish national tax which the Scottish Executive will then distribute to Councils as they see fit.

Now back to pedantry!

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They need it ratified by the English parliament to implement it.

Erm no, they need an Act of Parliament to be passed by the Parliament of The United Kingdom. There hasn't been any such thing as "The English Parliament" since 1707.

I resign! Dom for of Pedants UK!

Ah well, I see Darling's sorted it now then...

Of course it is the English parliament. It is the parliament that sits in England as opposed to the parliament that sits in Edinburgh.

Officially it is know as The United Kingdom Parliament

Of course it sits in England, but it legislates for the whole U.K.

I would have thought the Scottish PM and Chancellor would have been a bit of a give away!