Reform to the council tax system “won’t be complete in this decade”, Scotland’s finance secretary has said.

The SNP-led Scottish Government has pledged to change the system since coming to power in 2007, but little progress on reform has been made.

On Monday, the Government published a consultation document, with Shona Robison saying ministers do not endorse any of the four different systems proposed in the document, but are looking to see if “consensus around a unified position” forms.

The first pledged option would be a straight revaluation of properties which has not been done since the early 1990s, the second would see a new 12-band system introduced to replace the current eight bands, and another would see a “progressive 12 band system” where those in the lowest valued properties p

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