Council tax could be key to tackling inequality, conference to hear
Scotland’s existing power to set its own council tax could be one of the most effective ways to reduce income inequality, researchers from the University of Stirling will tell a major conference this week. The Stirling team headed by Professor David Bell have been researching policy responses to inequality as part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)s Future of the UK and Scotland activities to inform the referendum debate. ESRC Fellow Professor Bell will present the findings at the International Conference on the Economics of Constitutional Change to be held in