Specifically, it discusses the potential effects of:
Reducing the starter income tax rate in Scotland from 19% to 0%
Increasing child benefit by £18.45 per week
Changing the child related elements of Universal Credit
The project uses EUROMOD for simulating the tax and benefit rules to produce an estimate of the net income of each household, and of various measures of poverty in 2016/17 (the latest period for which outturn statistics on poverty are available), 2018/19, 2023-24 (the date...