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
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
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 £3.7 billion per year.
April 2024
STUC Parliamentary Briefing ahead of Scottish Green Party debate on Budget Priorities
October 2024
On 24 June the Scottish Parliament’s Finance and Public Administration Committee issued a call for views on the sustainability of Scotland's finances as the basis of its pre-budget scrutiny.
August 2023
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
