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Meanwhile, when the Scottish Government got financial transaction consequentials from the UK Government in the 2013 budget, the finance secretary called it “funny money”.
If we are to consider establishing a different approach in Scotland, the fact that there is a cost per transaction for tax credits—as opposed to a global administrative sum, as there is for the Scottish rate of income tax—begs the question of where the administrative costs for those transactions will fall and whether...
John Swinney in particular has a great deal to add to the process via his experience with the land and buildings transaction tax, the landfill tax and the Scottish rate of income tax so far.
We would like college funding to be restored so that some of the damage can be undone.The Scottish Government has described financial transactions funding as “funny money” and said that it is a con.
Recently, we did a poll of 3,000 visitors to our website—who are meant to be advanced drivers, of course—and, surprisingly, the top reason that they gave for speeding was that they did not agree with the limit that had been set.
It was also reported that certain elements, particularly the increase in parking charges, were actually in the initial published version of the RPP and that, within hours, that version was taken down from the Government’s website and replaced with one that did not mention those things.
That would be an initial action as a result of the bill, but there are others. Historic Scotland’s website provides access to information, but access is a recurrent theme and it is important that we ensure that information is available.The defence of ignorance as it currently stands has rarely been used anyway, so section 3 will not result in a big change i...