Question reference: S5W-07906
- Asked by: Ross Thomson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 14 March 2017
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Current status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 21 March 2017
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, in the event that local authorities raise more in non-domestic rates than the sum allocated to them in the local government settlement, whether they will retain the difference.
Answer
As each local authority retains all the business rates collected within their area, I can confirm that if a local authority raises more non-domestic rates than allocated to them in the local government finance settlement then they will retain that difference.