19 April 2011
Last updated at 06:21 ET
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The Scottish Greens have launched their Holyrood election manifesto with a pledge to increase tax to counteract UK government spending cuts.
The party also said it would scrap the new Forth road bridge and Aberdeen bypass and divert the £1.8bn saved to other areas of public spending.
It also wants a land value tax to replace council tax and business rates.
The party, which had two MSPs in the last parliament, opposes fees for Scots university students studying at home.
The Scottish Greens’ tax plans would see 0.5p added to the Scottish Variable Rate, or tartan tax, from 2013, on the assumption that Westminster’s cuts to Scottish funding would continue throughout the next parliament.
This would, the party has argued in its Holyrood election manifesto, raise more than £200m a year, with someone earning £20,000 paying £1.20 a week more in tax, rising to £3.60 for people on salaries of £44,875.
The party said £2.6bn could
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