{"id":77234,"date":"2024-08-14T16:04:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T15:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=77234"},"modified":"2024-08-14T16:04:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T15:04:32","slug":"gers-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/08\/14\/gers-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GERS-day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's GERS-day.<\/p>\n<p>GERS-day is the day in the year when the Scottish Government publishes what is called the Government Expenditure and Revenue Statement for Scotland for 2023-24. This statement supposedly shows the overall state of the public finances in Scotland, and let me assure you, it does not do anything like that.<\/p>\n<p>GERS is a complete misrepresentation of the truth when it comes to accounting. Why is that? Because of a number of assumptions that are built within this.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how I introduce my video for The National today. The rest is here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Richard Murphy expertly debunks GERS figures\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i-efXEzzgjQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s GERS-day. GERS-day is the day in the year when the Scottish Government publishes what is called the Government Expenditure and Revenue Statement for Scotland<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/08\/14\/gers-day-2\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,35,106,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-politics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77236,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77234\/revisions\/77236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}