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Rates bills cut as public sector workers get pay rise

Kate Forbes
Kate Forbes: much needed support Finance Secretary Kate Forbes today announced that she will use cash repaid to the government by supermarkets to extend business rates relief to the hardestRead More

Scottish Budget

Forbes pledges ‘targeted’ plan for firms and families

Kate Forbes
Kate Forbes: tackling inequality Finance Secretary Kate Forbes is promising her Scottish Budget this week will provide new measures to help businesses and families recover from the pandemic, and aRead More

Scottish Budget appeal

MSPs must embrace local empowerment says think tank

Chris Deerin
Chris Deerin: claims are simply incorrect (pic: Terry Murden)   A Scottish think-tank has criticised opposition parties at Holyrood for taking a ‘centralist’ view of decision making. Ahead of aRead More

Calls to scrap parking levy

Mackay’s car park tax ‘could cost £400 for every worker’

Murdo Fraser
Murdo Fraser: ‘tax is already falling apart’ (pic: Terry Murden)   Opposition MSPs have united to call for the SNP to abandon its car park tax, claiming it would costRead More

As I See It

Mackay’s austerity budget is an opportunity missed

Derek Mackay
Derek Mackay could have wrong-footed the opposition by delivering a budget for business growth, instead he is handing them justifiable grievances, writes BRIAN MONTEITH

Agreement reached

Tourist tax approved as Greens back Mackay’s budget

Derek Mackay delivers budget 12 Dec
Derek Mackay: business retains some reservations about the budget   Scottish councils will have the power to introduce a “tourist tax”, impose a levy on workplace parking, and introduce newRead More

Scottish Budget

Ministers take tax cut as councils cut services, says Labour

Derek Mackay SNP 2018 conf
Derek Mackay will get a tax cut from his own Budget (pic: Terry Murden DB Media Services)   SNP Ministers are planning to reward themselves with a tax cut inRead More

Parties at loggerheads

Mackay faces budget defeat as opposition talks break down

Derek Mackay (at SNP conf)
Derek Mackay needs support from at least one party (pic: Terry Murden DB Media Services)   Scottish Finance Secretary Derek Mackay is facing a battle to save his Budget thisRead More

Call to cut business rates

Retailers and BCC call for decisive action on Budget and Brexit

David Lonsdale
David Lonsdale: ‘investment will be more critical’ (pic: Terry Murden)   Business groups are today calling for decisive action from the UK and Scottish governments on the Holyrood Budget andRead More

As I See It

No more rabbits in Derek Mackay’s Budget hat

Derek Mackay (at SNP conf)
Derek Mackay's brave face hides some stark truths about the economy, says BRIAN MONTEITH