As the FT has reported: The Conservatives will ban Scottish MPs from having a deciding vote on any changes to the rates of income tax
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This blog by me has just been posted by Holyrood magazine in Edinburgh and is reposted here with permission ——— Paul Johnson of the Institute
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The FT has some hysteria in its pages this morning, reporting that (and I quote extensively for good reason):I added the emphasis, and for good
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The SNP manifesto includes strong commitments to investment in thew Scottish economy, including via the Green Investment Bank and a Scottish Development Bank. What intrigues
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I am in Crieff in Perthshire this morning to address the annual conference of COSLA – the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities. This is (give
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The Greens, UKIP and SNP all presented tax proposals yesterday in the run up to the election. The Greens suggested a wealth tax on those
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I gave evidence to the Scottish Affairs Committee yesterday on the importance of being able to track the ownership of Scottish land through offshore companies.
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The government has announced the Bill to grant Northern Ireland the right to set its own corporation tax rate. For those who want to reduce
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Reports that Scotland has not invested sufficiently in the tax systems it will have to use to exercise the new powers it has been granted
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