The notional deficit in Scotland’s public finances has fallen by £1.3bn over the past year, but still stands at 8.3% of GDP, more than three times the UK level, according to the annual...
Scotland’s public finances are especially vulnerable to damage from the Brexit process, and ministers should be putting contingencies in place now to absorb future economic shocks, CIPFA has...
Scottish ministers are to use their new welfare powers to create a benefit aimed at helping people who face financial difficulties in meeting funeral costs.
The group set up to review Scotland’s budget process has urged radical reform to reflect that increased proportions of money will now be raised in the country.
A second referendum on Scottish independence will be put on hold until after Brexit, Scotland’s first minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has said.
MSPs from across the political spectrum joined forces to lambast the Scottish Conservatives over their support for the UK government‘s two-child cap on child benefit entitlement.
Brexit could bring Scotland’s plans for a new generation of social housing grinding to a halt, leaders of the Scottish housing association movement have warned.
The leader of Scotland’s biggest council told the CIPFA Scotland conference of his vision for a digital future in which poorer families are helped to develop internet capabilities and...
Scottish finance secretary Derek Mackay has told the CIPFA Scotland conference he expects Scottish tax policies to diverge increasingly from those of the rest of the UK.
The Scottish Parliament has formally demanded a second referendum on independence to be held within two years, a day after the prime minister told first minister Nicola Sturgeon that now was not the...
In an exclusive interview, Scottish finance minister Derek Mackay talks to PF about bargaining over the Budget and Scotland’s increasingly divergent fiscal approach
Scottish local government reformers need to stop being fixated with numbers of councils and concentrate instead on delivering services more efficiently, according to a report from Deloitte.
Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon is to seek approval for a second independence referendum, which could take place as soon as autumn next year.
The spring Budget promised a review of taxation on North Sea assets aimed at maximising exploitation of remaining oil reserves, and on the extra £350m of “Barnett consequentials”...
Scottish finance secretary Derek Mackay has announced a £44m business rates relief package in the hope of heading off a threatened campaign of non-payment among Scottish businesses outraged at the...
Scotland’s finance secretary Derek Mackay has urged UK chief secretary to the Treasury David Gauke to waive a £35m annual VAT bill imposed on Scotland’s national police and fire services.
The presiding officer’s casting vote has enabled finance secretary Derek Mackay to escape a symbolic Holyrood defeat on the eve of publishing his Budget Bill.
Theresa May’s stance on Brexit has made it more likely that a second referendum on Scottish independence will take place, Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon has implied.