The University of Strathclyde
Earlier today, FAI Director Graeme Roy gave a talk to the Chartered Institute of Taxation and Association of Taxation Technicians Joint Presidents’ Lunch at The Signet Library, in Edinburgh. The text of his talk is below, and you can download it here.
The Scottish Government says that income tax policy changes since 2016/17 have been ‘highly redistributive’ and have ‘protected low income earners’. But how much of this affect can be attributed to the Scottish Government’s rates and band changes, and how much to the UK Government’s Personal Allowance changes? And how …
You can download the slides here.
The fourth budget of this parliamentary term has, as expected, led to a healthy increase in the resources available to the Scottish Government. So what were the key points from today? The overall outlook for public spending Spending on public services is up by around 3.6% in real terms in …
On Thursday, Mr Mackay will present his fourth budget – the penultimate budget before next year’s elections. The budget will be delivered against the backdrop of the UK’s recent departure from the EU, significant frictions between both governments on issues ranging from constitutional change to budget timing, devolution of major …
So now we know: the UK Budget will be presented on 11 March, having been postponed from its original date of 6 November. What are the implications for the Scottish budget? It seems now inevitable that the Scottish budget will have to be published in some form before 11 March. …
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This blog post contains the policy context chapter of our economic commentary, published today. The latest economic commentary can be found here. Budget 2020/21 will be the fourth of five to be set in this parliament. Normally of course it would have been published by now – the Scottish Government …
FAI Commentary: The outlook for the Scottish Budget 2020/21 Read More »
Frantisek Brocek[1] and David Eiser Under Scotland’s fiscal framework, Scotland’s budget will be better off (than it would have been without tax devolution) if income tax revenues per capita grow more quickly than they do in the rest of the UK (rUK). Some have argued that demographic projections for Scotland …
Inevitably, the defining feature of all the manifestos this election is the spectre of constitutional change. For the UK-wide parties this is an issue of Brexit (or stopping Brexit), whilst in Scotland there is the added question of independence. Beyond these major constitutional debates, reading UK election manifestos can feel …
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The Scottish Government had been due to publish its draft budget for 2020/21 on 12th December. The postponement of the UK Government’s budget – which had been scheduled for 6th November – had already thrown the status of the Scottish budget date into doubt. But the announcement of the General …
The Scottish budget 2020/21: postponed for now… but til when? Read More »