Ruth Alexander
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4,250 appearances
120 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Aug 2018
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Yeah, well, the Lib Dems say they'd introduce it in a couple of years' time.
Labour, though, think it could start raising revenue this fiscal year, so by next spring.
And they say they don't expect to get the full £1.2 billion then, but still it's hard to see how getting much money would be possible at all.
I mean, how would the valuation of the properties be done?
Who'd send out the bills?
What if people object?
Would it be HM Revenue and Customs or your local authority?
And then, you know, what if values of homes shift?
It's not even outside the realm of possibility that the new tax could change the valuation of some homes.
I mean, a large tax bill could shave a chunk off a home's desirability, I'm sure.
In short, there's a lot of detail to be ironed out.
So, I mean, Labour's Jim Murphy can probably fairly say...
as he does that the mansion tax would pay for an extra 1,000 nurses for Scotland.
Back of the envelope sums done for us by the health think tank, the King's Fund, suggests that 1,000 nurses could cost about £45 million a year to employ.
I mean, that doesn't include training.
But still, it's likely within the scope of the mansion tax revenue pot.
However, it's hard to believe the money would come rolling in for those nurses this financial year.
And by the way, 1,000 nurses for Scotland is actually quite a small number.
It means you'd be making the workforce bigger by about just 1.5%.
Well, it comes from an interview they've done with the Chancellor, George Osborne, during which he highlighted an independent Treasury analysis.
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