A needlessly complex tax regime needs better alignment with England, argues DONALD PARBROOK While the fiscal position may leave Shona Robison, the outgoing SNP Finance Secretary, with relatively few options, taxpayers in Scotland surely find the Scottish income tax rates and bands system needlessly complicated. The rest of the UK has three income tax bands […]
Scottish tax
Time to raise Scotland’s sights by lowering tax
MICHELLE BALLANTYNE says Reform offers a challenge to the cosy tax and spend consensus Scotland is failing. Since the SNP came to power Scotland has failed in so many ways, from educational standards to centralising policing. But perhaps most starkly it is economic failure – with GDP growth of barely half the UK average – that […]