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Estimating the impact of tax policy changes
Increasing the basic rate of income tax in Scotland by 1p would be estimated to raise revenues by around £380m. This is before taking account of any behavioural responses that might result from the policy change.
Scottish Government non domestic rating account. Retrieved from <a href="http://www.audit-scotland.gov.uk/uploads/docs/report/2016/fa_1516_scottish_government_nondomestic_rating.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.audit-scotland.gov.uk/uploads/docs/report/2016/fa_1516_scottish_government_nondomestic_rating.pdf</a> (figures for 2016-17 are due to be ...
Transparency and Accountability of DMGs
In its 2013/14 inquiry the RACCE Committee was concerned1Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee. (2014, February 5).
I am much more optimistic than Rhoda Grant and have a better insight into the immense technical difficulty we have seen in laying cables—not least submarine cables—to many of our islands.
Just for clarification, you are going to write to the Government and lay all of that out. I am going to write to the Government to lay out the general issues as we have raised them.
The spirit of Smith is to devolve to the Scottish Parliament and therefore be accountable to the Scottish Parliament. It would be hard for me to reconcile a position in which another Parliament or another Government is involved in that accountability.
If the unexpected changes do not occur, we will be accounting for why we have not spent the management contingency as well as accounting for what we have spent.