The UK government’s lack of engagement with devolved administrations over the £2.6bn fund aimed at replacing regional European Union funding has strained relationships across the union,...
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.
Falkirk Council has so far been unable to make “difficult decisions” it needs to in order to make the savings required for financial sustainability, according to a watchdog’s heavily critical report.
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.
Scottish and UK government ministers will commission an independent report looking into changing the way Scotland’s tax revenue affects its funding from Westminster.
Two weeks before it hosts COP26, Glasgow City Council last week approved a £10bn plan to retrofit 1 million homes in the city region to make them more energy efficient. Mark Williams explains how the...
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.
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.
The Scottish government has announced it will provide more than £1bn additional funding over five years to help address health shortages and treatment backlogs created by Covid-19.
West Lothian Council has agreed to guarantee the financial position of a wholly-owned local leisure operator until the end of April, after Covid-19 impacted on its finances.
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.
Shetland Island Council must reduce its reliance on reserves to help manage budgetary pressures in future years, according to the authority's finance chief.
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”.
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...
Manifestos from Scotland’s largest parties do not honestly reckon with the devolved government’s likely financial situation in the coming years, according to Institute for Fiscal Studies researchers.
