A CAMPAIGN will be launched tomorrow by Scottish businessmen to press for extra tax powers for Scotland beyond those proposed under the Calman Commission.

–By: Christopher Mackie - The Scotsman

Businessmen Launch Drive to Claim More Control Over Tax for Scotland

A CAMPAIGN will be launched tomorrow by Scottish businessmen to press for extra tax powers for Scotland beyond those proposed under the Calman Commission.

The move to win greater fiscal autonomy for Scotland is to be led by Dan Macdonald, of Macdonald Hotels, Ben Thomson, the financier who set up the Reform think-tank, and Jim McColl of the Clyde Blowers company.

At a media conference tomorrow the group will launch a declaration which will claim that “a Scottish Parliament with far greater responsibility for raising the money it spends would lead to better government”.

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