Labour has written to John Swinney, the interim finance secretary, to call on him to lower the threshold for the top rate of tax
SNP ministers have been urged to follow Jeremy Hunt's lead and hike taxes for the highest-earners in Scotland.
The move will see 14 per cent of people in the rest of the UK becoming higher-rate taxpayers after the Chancellor lowered the threshold for the 45p rate of income from £150,000 to £125,140. Daniel Johnson, the party's finance spokesman, said: "Scotland’s economy is entering into some of the toughest times we have faced in recent memory.
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