THE Washington Post has been forced to issue a correction after its editorial board – which is closely controlled by the billionaire Amazon owner Jeff Bezos – made a wildly incorrect claim about Scotland’s tax system.
The right-wing US newspaper, in a “leader” article expressing its own opinions, had claimed that the SNP Government’s changes to the top rate of income tax had cost the country “somewhere between £15 billion and £30 billion in revenue after increasing the top tax rate to 48 percent”.
