12-11-2024, 08:00 PM
The Scottish Liberal Party welcomes some of the announcements made by the Scottish Government. However, Scottish Liberals maintain that more could have been done to improve the lives of the Scottish people. The Scottish budget had three main areas of concern: responding to public services badly in need of repair, reducing child poverty and boosting economic growth.
Scottish Liberals welcome the reversal of the two child benefit cap, increase in NHS spending and no change to the income tax rates .
Scottish Liberals would have liked to have seen an increase in the personal tax threshold for Scottish taxpayers to at least £15,000, a reform of council tax (to be replaced with a Land Value Tax) and greater fiscal autonomy for Scottish councils to allow them to raise (and reduce) their own taxation without being restrained by Holyrood.
Scottish Liberals note with concern the lack of any real meaningful economic growth in the Scottish economy; Scotland’s economic growth has averaged at 1% over the last 20 years. We call for a more comprehensive set of policies aimed at simplifying the tax system, increasing the proportionality of tax paid by those with the wherewithal and finally, a substantial increase in infrastructure spending across the whole of Scotland.
Kayed Al-Haddad (Chair, Scottish Liberal Party)
Scottish Liberals welcome the reversal of the two child benefit cap, increase in NHS spending and no change to the income tax rates .
Scottish Liberals would have liked to have seen an increase in the personal tax threshold for Scottish taxpayers to at least £15,000, a reform of council tax (to be replaced with a Land Value Tax) and greater fiscal autonomy for Scottish councils to allow them to raise (and reduce) their own taxation without being restrained by Holyrood.
Scottish Liberals note with concern the lack of any real meaningful economic growth in the Scottish economy; Scotland’s economic growth has averaged at 1% over the last 20 years. We call for a more comprehensive set of policies aimed at simplifying the tax system, increasing the proportionality of tax paid by those with the wherewithal and finally, a substantial increase in infrastructure spending across the whole of Scotland.
Kayed Al-Haddad (Chair, Scottish Liberal Party)