COUNCIL Tax will go up further, staff could be charged to park at work,and tourists charged a tax for hotel stays in a last minute budget deal agreed by the SNP and Greens.

Finance Secretary, Derek Mackay agreed a deal with the Green MSPs to get his budget passed at Holyrood.

In turn for their votes, Mr Mackay will allow councils to charge a tourist tax if they wish and for the Workplace Parking Levy to be backed by the Scottish Government.

The cap on council tax increases, currently 3% will be raised to 4.7% to allow council to raise for cash.

It will increase band D council tax in Glasgow by £60 a year if the council decides to raise it to the maximum.

A 3% raise would have seen it go up by £38 per year for Band D.

Band A would rise by £40 a year,Band B by£47 a year and Band C £53 with a 4.7% increase.

Mr Mackay said his budget also provides more cash for local government. Opposition parties however say it still means councils cutting services.

In Glasgow the council is facing its biggest shortfall in years with cash for the first year of equal pay settlement adding to other constraints.

The Finance Secretary, said: “The Scottish Government has continued to ensure our partners in local government receive a fair funding settlement despite further cuts to the Scottish budget from the UK Government.

“These additional measures will deliver the most significant empowerment of local authorities since devolution and provide additional funding to support local services.

“In total, overall spending power for local authorities next year will be £620 million higher than it is currently.”

Labour said the deal means less cash in real terms, a 2.3% cut.

It said the Scottish Parliament Information Centre figures show that councils will face £230m of cuts.

James Kelly finance Spokesman, said: “The only thing the SNP-Green stitch up will deliver is cuts. Tax cuts for high earners, funding cuts for councils and budget cuts for colleges and universities.

“Labour will engage with the debate around council tax reform and have long campaign for a Tourist Tax – but these proposals do nothing to help councils in the coming financial year, who face a £230.7million cut to funding.

“This budget will lead to a tax cut to people on incomes up to £124,000. The richest could have paid more but the rest will suffer as a result.”

Glasgow City Council is expected to set its budget later in February.

Council tax is likely to be raised and cuts to services necessary as a spending gap of between £60 and £80m is anticipated with the Equal Pay deal, even though pay outs won’t begin until later in the year, having to be factored in to this year’s figures.