A root-and-branch review of the Scottish Parliament’s budgetary process is to be undertaken in order to reflect Holyrood’s increasing fiscal powers and its changing relationship with Westminster.
County and district councils have called on the government to commit to providing additional funding for local services where demand outstrips business rate growth following the forthcoming...
Value added tax should be fully devolved to the Scottish Parliament in order to make Holyrood responsible for more of the money it spends, according to a free market think-tank.
Scotland’s public finances ended 2015-16 almost £15bn in deficit thanks to a massive slump in the North Sea revenues, according to the latest figures produced by the Scottish Government.
A prominent free market think tank has backed Scottish Government plans to cut and then scrap Air Passenger Duty and urged other parties to unite behind the plan, which is strongly opposed by both...
The government has started consulting on the introduction of a tax on sugary drink manufacturers, which it hopes will help bring down childhood obesity rates.
The government has confirmed today it will seek to clamp down on accountants, tax planners and advisers who help their clients to bend the rules and avoid tax.
Scotland’s notoriously lethal love affair with unhealthy food could be targeted with a special junk food tax under plans published today by a new Scottish Government agency, Food Standards Scotland.
Funding for public services will become “highly variable” in many county areas under government plans to make councils financially self-sufficient by the end of the decade, government has been warned.
The amount of revenue raised though property taxes in 2014-15 was £66.8bn, an increase of nearly 3% compared to the previous year, an analysis by the Taxpayer’s Alliance has found.
Prime minister Theresa May has set out possible changes to how local shale wealth funds created from shale gas exploration will operate, with distribution of money to local residents now considered...
An all-party parliamentary group has claimed the international proposals to combat global tax evasion do not go far enough and may create new loopholes that could be used to not pay the correct...
The UK should reboot Britain in the wake of Brexit by cutting its corporation tax to zero and adopting Icelandic fishing policies, according to a new report.
Governments share the blame for the estimated $3.1 trillion lost to tax evasion and avoidance globally, two tax experts told the CIPFA annual conference yesterday.
The introduction of a council tax precept to boost social care funding will fail to cover the extra costs faced by the sector from the National Living Wage according to the Association of Directors...
The Department for Communities and Local Government has pledged that new rules governing business rate appeals will weed out speculative applications ahead of localisation to town halls.
The public finances have become increasingly dependent on taxation raised from London in the last decade, while the share of revenue raised from a host of other cities has fallen, a report has found.
Devolving around one-third of corporation tax to cities could help provide the local funding and incentives necessary to boost UK productivity, a report by the New Local Government Network has...