Reading Time: 4 minutesThis blog outlines the money that the Scottish Government is receiving in relation to coronavirus (COVID-19) support and its plans for using these funds.
Tag: Budget
A loosening of the fiscal taps
Reading Time: 3 minutesA blog on the implications of yesterday’s UK Budget for the Scottish public finances.
Budget Bill Stage 1 – a deal, but questions over how it will be funded
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis blog considers the Budget deal announced between the Scottish Government and the Scottish Green Party.
Budget 2020-21 tax proposals: running to stand still?
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat do the Scottish Government’s proposals for income tax in 2020-21 mean for individuals and for the Scottish budget?
Scottish Budget 2020-21: Taxing times ahead
Reading Time: 4 minutesA look at income distribution in Scotland and what it might mean for tax policy.
Budget process 2020-21: We have a date!
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Cabinet Secretary for Finance has announced that the Scottish Government will publish its budget for 2020-21 on 6 February 2020, and introduce the Budget
UK Spending Review – implications for Scotland’s Budget
Reading Time: 3 minutesA look at the implications of the UK Spending Review for Scotland’s Budget.
Linking budgets to outcomes – the impossible dream?
Reading Time: 5 minutesHow useful is the new National Performance Framework (NPF) to the Parliament’s committees as they scrutinise the Scottish Government’s budget?
The (budgetary) times they are a changin’: 20 years of devolved budgets
Reading Time: 7 minutesAs part of the programme to mark 20 years since the creation of the Scottish Parliament, SPICe will publish twenty “20 year” blog posts on
Scottish Budget 2019-20: what’s changed?
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt seems a long time since the Scottish Government set out its tax and spend proposals for 2019-20 back on 12 December 2018. Tax rates