Scotland's public finances
How we set policy baselines
Author / Creator: Scottish Fiscal Commission
Media type: Report
Date published: 2024
A policy baseline is the set of values we include in our forecast covering all policy aspects of the tax
and social security systems. This includes factors such as tax and social security rates, thresholds,
payment amounts, eligibility criteria and implementation timings.
Scotland’s Finances – The Truth
Author / Creator: Believe in Scotland
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
Scotland cannot afford to continue subsidising this failing, disinterested and dysfunctional Union.
Fiscal Sustainability Report
Author / Creator: Scottish Fiscal Commission
Media type: Report
Date published: 2023
First report on the long-term fiscal sustainability of the Scottish Government’s budget.
Scotland: Currency Options and Public Debt
Author / Creator: Angus Armstrong
Media type: Article
Date published: 2014
What currency option would be best for an independent Scotland
The “Fiscal Deficit” in Wales: why it does not represent an accurate picture of the opening public finances of an Independent Wales
Author / Creator: John Doyle
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
The UK government statement of the financial deficit of an independent Wales is grossly exaggerated.
Scotland’s Finances – The Truth
Author / Creator: Business for Scotland
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2022
There is no set of accounts that tells us how an independent Scotland’s economy would fare, nor what its finances would look like. Not yet anyway.
Can an Independent Scotland stand on its own two feet?
Author / Creator: John Jappy
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2013
"If Scotland votes for Independence,... those of us living north of the Border will not lose out." John Jappy