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

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
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
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
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
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
Reading Time: 4 minutes As with all guest blogs, what follows are the views of the author, Jennifer Wallace, Head of Policy at the Carnegie UK Trust, and not those
Reading Time: 2 minutes Tomorrow the Health and Sport Committee is due to consider the secondary legislation which will bring minimum unit pricing (MUP) for alcohol into effect. This
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Financial Scrutiny Unit is often asked to make Scotland vs England comparisons on various financial measures. When it comes to local government, comparing the
Reading Time: 4 minutes At the beginning of February I shared an update to the local government finance settlement at Stage 1 of the Budget Bill 2018-19. The figures
Reading Time: 5 minutes In the midst of a period of substantial constitutional debate and change, one significant piece of devolution has been (relatively) quietly underway. The devolution of