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A Budget for Communities: STUC Briefing on Scottish Budget

The Scottish Government has a chance to turn the clock back on 14 years of austerity and rebuild community wealth. But to do so it must invest in local services, end peak fares, deliver free school meals, scrap the small business bonus scheme, and raise revenue from property and wealth taxes.

November 2024

Tags: Budget Community Wealth Building Local Government Public Services Scottish Budget Tax

Local Tax Open Letter to Party Leaders

Open letter from Scotland’s largest trade unions, academics, charities and campaign organisations calling on Scotland’s main political party leaders to ‘urgently’ revaluate property across the country as a critical step towards reforming Scotland’s broken system of local property taxation.

April 2024

Tags: Budget Community Wealth Building Economic development Economy Local Government Public Services Scottish Budget Tax

Options for increasing taxes in Scotland to fund investment in public services

A report by Howard Reed, Landman Economics, commissioned by the STUC exploring the options for increasing taxes in Scotland to fund investment in public services and public sector pay. The research finds that short-run and longer-run tax changes could raise an extra £3.3 billion per year, which could be used to fund a real-terms increase in public sector pay as well as a substantial additional investment in Scotland’s public services. The increase in public sector pay reduces gender inequalities in earnings, and the package of tax increases is distributionally progressive whether measured by household wealth or household income.

December 2022

Tags: Public Services Scottish Budget Tax

STUC Fair Care for Scotland MSP briefing on National Care Service (Scotland) Bill

On the 29th of February 2024, the Scottish Government led debate on Stage 1 of the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill.

April 2024

Tags: Public Services Social care

STUC Fair Care for Scotland MSP Briefing on proposals for a National Care Service and need for immediate action on social care

The Scottish Government carried out a series of engagements with stakeholders during the co-design period of the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill

April 2024

Tags: Public Services Social care

STUC Parliamentary Briefing on Budget Priorities

STUC Parliamentary Briefing ahead of Scottish Green Party debate on Budget Priorities

October 2024

Tags: Budget Economy Inequality Local Government Public Services Scottish Budget

STUC submission to the Scottish Parliament’s Finance Committee’s Inquiry into the Scottish Government’s Public Service Reform programme

In May 2022, the Scottish Government’s Resource Spending Review set out its high-level spending plans up until 2026-27, including plans to keep pay bill costs at 2022-23 levels by ‘returning the public sector workforce broadly to pre-Covid-19 levels’. For these reasons, in March 2023, the Finance Committee launched an inquiry to look in more detail at the Scottish Government’s public service reform programme, ahead of the Scottish Budget.

April 2023

Tags: Budget Public Services Tax

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