Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s an exciting time of year – the final funding allocations for local government in 2019-20 have been published! We wrote in a recent blog
Tag: Local Government
Scottish Budget 2019-20: what’s changed?
Reading Time: 4 minutes It 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
Just give us 12 months… comparing local government funding settlements over time
Reading Time: 3 minutes At this time of year, once provisional figures for the coming year’s Budget have been made available, SPICe is often asked to set out how
Short term lets: time for regulation?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The growth in short term lets, facilitated by peer to peer online platforms, such as Airbnb, has sparked debate about whether short term lets should
What is a Tourist Tax, and why is everyone talking about it?
Reading Time: 4 minutes After years of being touted by local authorities, political parties and expert groups, the idea of introducing a Transient Visitor Levy (TVL) within Scotland, has
Local Government funding – the story behind the figures
Reading Time: 4 minutes On 21 May SPICe published a briefing looking at local government finance trends from 2013-14 onwards. Local Government Finance: facts and figures 2013-14 to 2018-19