Scots seem little better off after decades of devolution. In his 4-page paper, SLRG’s Ian Kirkwood responds to the call of the many who are perplexed to find Scotland and Scots still trapped in a
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We have offered guidance to the Expert Advisory Group on Tax on Land and Property
This is the big chance for Scotland: get the tax reform right, and Scotland can lead the way in Europe by demonstrating how to reduce the avoidable death rates in locations like Drumchapel. An
Continue ReadingScottish exam marking in 2020 could have shown the way to equality
Post code poverty has influenced exam results in Scotland from time immemorial. Did C19 offer a once in a generation opportunity to balance up the results? At SLRG we often talk about the postcode
Continue ReadingThe shame of embedded Scottish and UK inequality
Embedded inequality, subsistence wages, impoverished public services, unsustainable debt, land speculation, forced economic migration and homelessness can be history…IF we so choose. Is it any wonder our public revenue is inadequate? The owners of rent-yielding
Continue ReadingRadical tax reform for national economic recovery after the pandemic
It is wrong to believe that we should revert to live as we did before the pandemic. The statistics of its incidence show that the poorest people have suffered far more than the rich and
Continue ReadingSLRG Review: ‘Resilience Economics: An Economic Model for Scotland’s Economy’
Common Weal has published Resilience Economics: An Economic Model for Scotland’s Economy. https://commonweal.scot/…/2020…/Resilience%20Economics_0.pdf The authors present an overview of the current and historic problems Scotland has endured and a call for a better future using
Continue ReadingScottish Review call for LVT
Writer Bill Paterson calls for the revenue reform desperately needed in Scotland: AGR/LVT. https://www.scottishreview.net/BillPaterson527a.html?utm_source=Sign-Up.to&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=8427-399012-COVID-19%3A+we+need+leaders+who+put+the+welfare+of+all+people+first
Continue ReadingFree money for Scotland by changing Holyrood tax policy
You’d need a good reason to consider moving tax from wages to site rents. The good reason is the avoidable DEADWEIGHT LOSS of at least £500 billion a year suffered by the UK. Scotland’s share
Continue ReadingFeeling poor Holyrood?
MSPs could add £12.8bn to Scotland’s economy today with a tax reform that would nut embedded inequality, fairly. That additional £12.8 billion would be shared each year between Scotland’s public and private sectors.
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Social unrest may be expected in the wake of C19. Not because we were hit by a disaster not of our making; but because the wilful starvation of public services, leading to poor pandemic precautions,
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