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4 Jul 22
The bodies responsible for coordinating local care services in Scotland face significant financial challenges due to rising demand and a lack of certainty over funding, the national watchdog has...
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1 Jul 22
The Treasury has commissioned a report to look at whether to change the way it funds the Scottish Government in response to increasing devolution.
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16 Jun 22
The Scottish government needs to provide more detail on how and why it spent emergency Covid-19 funding, according to the national watchdog.
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31 May 22
Council workers in Scotland look increasingly likely to take industrial action if demands for a larger pay rise amid high inflation are not met, according to a union official.
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27 May 22
Scotland could have to make spending cuts and increase taxes to help fill a medium-term budget deficit, experts have warned.
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26 May 22
The Scottish government has been told it should provide local authorities with a multi-year financial settlement to enable robust medium-term planning amid long-term funding reductions.
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14 Apr 22
The Scottish Government is looking at introducing a digital sales tax as part of a plan to boost towns.
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17 Mar 22
Measuring the effectiveness of billions of pounds of Covid-19 support paid to Scottish firms is impossible due to the poor quality of data collected by the Scottish government, according to...
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28 Jan 22
Scotland’s local authorities will be given an extra £120m next year compared to previous plans, Kate Forbes has announced.
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18 Jan 22
The Scottish government must rethink last month's local government settlement or risk disastrous consequences for communities, say COSLA's Alison Evison and Gail Macgregor.
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10 Dec 21
Local authorities in Scotland are set to have full autonomy over the council tax rates they can set next year, amid reductions in core funding, the Scottish government has announced.
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18 Oct 21
Scottish and UK government ministers will commission an independent report looking into changing the way Scotland’s tax revenue affects its funding from Westminster.
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4 Oct 21
It is 'now or never' for the Scottish government to implement reforms on how public services are run, according to the country's most senior auditor.
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14 Sep 21
Scottish National Party members have supported a motion calling for local authorities to be allowed a more permissive environment to raise revenues to help fund services.
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3 Sep 21
The costs of public services and extra pressures related to Covid-19 have become a strategic risk for Scotland, according to the nation's watchdog.
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1 Sep 21
The Scottish government has unveiled proposals for council tax and business rate reforms, including a realignment of rate bands, in a consultation on a new framework for tax policy.
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19 Aug 21
Covid-19 support measures and the related economic slowdown saw the Scottish government's budget deficit spike to 22.4% of GDP last year, according to latest statistics.
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6 Jul 21
A lack of engagement by Westminster with the Scottish Government on the replacement for European Union structural funding has left the devolved employment minister “beyond disappointed”.
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22 Jun 21
Capital spending among Scottish local authorities fell by more than £1bn last year amid Covid-19 disruption, provisional figures show.
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27 May 21
Scottish councils are at risk of becoming financially unsustainable without long-term funding settlements, the sector’s spending watchdog has warned.
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26 May 21
The Scottish National Party has proposed scrapping business rates, council tax and property transaction duties in favour of a land value tax, to give local government greater control over its...
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15 Apr 21
Scottish Government’s income tax rates are progressive, but unnecessarily complicated by taxation bands that are too similar, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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31 Mar 21
Funding for the Scottish Government’s day-to-day spending in 2021-22 is nearly a third higher per person than in England, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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24 Feb 21
The UK government refused a request from Scottish finance secretary Kate Forbes for £1.7bn of additional funding to support the Holyrood administration’s Budget for 2021-22, it has emerged.
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17 Feb 21
The Scottish Government has will extend the 100% business rates holiday for the whole of the next financial year, following further UK government funding.
4 Jul 22The bodies responsible for coordinating local care services in Scotland face significant financial challenges due to rising demand and a lack of certainty over funding, the national watchdog has...
1 Jul 22The Treasury has commissioned a report to look at whether to change the way it funds the Scottish Government in response to increasing devolution.
28 Jan 22Scotland’s local authorities will be given an extra £120m next year compared to previous plans, Kate Forbes has announced.
18 Jan 22The Scottish government must rethink last month's local government settlement or risk disastrous consequences for communities, say COSLA's Alison Evison and Gail Macgregor.
14 Sep 21Scottish National Party members have supported a motion calling for local authorities to be allowed a more permissive environment to raise revenues to help fund services.
3 Sep 21The costs of public services and extra pressures related to Covid-19 have become a strategic risk for Scotland, according to the nation's watchdog.
