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Ministers are urged to issue an urgent statement on 'unanswered' questions about the initiative.

Now these two incompatible philosophies have come together with all the grace of a bin full of glass bottles being emptied into the back of a recycling lorry.

But even if you support that approach — and many in the SNP do not — the project has also run into a string of practical problems with confusion and anger about the costs for small firms in particular. That has provoked another constitutional row, with the UK government making noises about blocking the project.

Kate Forbes says it could cause "economic carnage"; Ash Regan wants it to be redesigned or scrapped; Humza Yousaf supports a grace period for small firms)

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