SCOTTISH multi-millionaire Tom Hunter has been urged to correct his “highly misleading claim” that just 250 super-rich individuals pay 60% of all Scottish income tax.
Hunter, who is estimated to be worth around 700 million , made the “false” claim as he hit out at the Scottish Greens for proposing that the wealthiest in society should pay more in tax.
Speaking to Go Radio’s Business Show, the Ayrshire-born businessman claimed: “We can get 250 people in a room at Gleneagles who are paying 60% of all the income tax in Scotland, and then we’ve got Ross Greer saying ‘tax the rich, tax the rich’.”
Hunter further told Labour peer Willie Haughey: “What people like Ross don’t quite get, it’s a cheap headline, but what people like Ross don’t get is it’s the rich who pay the tax who pay for all his freebies.”
“We can get 250 people in a room at Gleneagles who are paying 60% of all the income tax in Scotland, and then we've got Ross Greer saying, “tax the rich””
On Sunday’s episode of The Go Radio Business Show, Sir Tom Hunter and Lord Willie Haughey reacted to the Sunday Times Rich… pic.twitter.com/AZf3Wv11eS— Go Radio (@thisisgoradio) May 21, 2026
However, Hunter was called out by Laurie Macfarlane, the co-director of the Future Economy Scotland think tank, who pointed out the errors in his claims.
“It is simply not the case that 250 people pay 60% of all the income tax in Scotland,” Macfarlane said. “This is a false claim that should be corrected.”
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