What does GERS have to do with Independence?
Answer:
GERS has less importance than some believe. The figures are estimates with a number of contested assumptions.
Full answer here: The Accounting Trick that Hides Scotland’s Wealth
FFS explains: what is the GERS report and what can it tell you?
Author / Creator: The Ferret
Media type: Fact check
Date published:
Published annually, the report details the difference between Scotland’s tax revenues and its public service expenditure.
A Guide to the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) Report
Author / Creator: Fraser of Allander Institute
Media type: Academic Paper
Date published: 2021
GERS does not present a balanced view of the Scottish economy. The possible financial costs and risks, or savings and opportunities, of implementing a new constitutional framework are, naturally, not considered in GERS. Similarly, it does not report on the effects of faster or slower economic growth in an independent Scotland.
The truth about the annual GERS figures.
Author / Creator: The National
Media type: News Media
Date published:
There is no set of official accounts that tells us how an independent Scotland’s economy would fare, nor what its finances would look like.
Response to latest [2020/1] Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) estimates
Author / Creator: David Phillips
Media type: Assessment report
Date published:
The large debts shown by the 2020/1 GERS are temporary and not structural. They do not indicate that Scotland cannot afford to be inedpendent.
Revealed: The Accounting Trick that Hides Scotland’s Wealth (2020)
Author / Creator: Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp
Media type: Assessment report
Date published: 2020
The UK Government has diverted Scotland’s wealth to the UK Treasury to pay off its debts. Thus it creates 100% of Scotland’s supposed debts and 100% of its phoney deficit. This is the impact of Westminster’s debt loading alone, and upon that accounting trick, rests the entire economic case for the Union. Would an independent Scotland have to pay the rUK a population share of the UK’s historical debt? No – there is in fact a very strong case for Scotland to be compensated for having already paid more than it’s “fair share” of the UK’s debt