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The position that you see in the report has changed since the end of the year, and one fewer member of the management team is in receipt of a benefit in kind in relation to a car lease, as their responsibilities have changed.
If production and investment trends follow the industry’s own forecasts, Scottish receipts could increase to approximately £7 billion in the coming years.
More than that, we have set out how policies to boost productivity, grow our population and increase participation in the labour market could boost our tax receipts by an additional £5 billion a year.
However, there would be as much cost in rolling out coded systems from the 1990s as there would be in taking us forward into the 21st century and rolling out a brand new system for everyone.
I apologise if I misrepresent how Glasgow City Council has sought to enable benefit automation, but I understand that it uses information on people who are in receipt of council tax reduction to passport them to the school clothing grant.
From our point of view, that group does not contribute much to the tax receipts. Knowing whether someone pays a small amount of tax or no tax at all does not figure enormously in our forecast.
If, for example, it is recommended that a member avoids using public transport for a period while they are in receipt of abuse, that comes with increased costs.
I am sure that we will get into some of this later in the session. Recent evidence from the tax receipts that are coming through the system is that income tax performance is improving and we are outperforming the rest of the UK.