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We have offered guidance to the Expert Advisory Group on Tax on Land and Property

January 28, 2021January 29, 2021Uncategorized

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

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Scottish exam marking in 2020 could have shown the way to equality

August 7, 2020August 7, 2020Uncategorized

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

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The shame of embedded Scottish and UK inequality

June 23, 2020June 23, 2020Uncategorized

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

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Radical tax reform for national economic recovery after the pandemic

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020Uncategorized

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

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SLRG Review: ‘Resilience Economics: An Economic Model for Scotland’s Economy’

June 5, 2020June 5, 2020Uncategorized

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

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Scottish Review call for LVT

June 3, 2020June 8, 2020Uncategorized

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

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Free money for Scotland by changing Holyrood tax policy

June 2, 2020June 2, 2020Uncategorized

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

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Feeling poor Holyrood?

May 28, 2020May 28, 2020Uncategorized

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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‘Events’

May 25, 2020May 25, 2020Uncategorized

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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Equal life chances in the Indus Valley

May 7, 2020May 8, 2020Uncategorized

In this radio programme Neil MacGregor examines the great Indus Valley civilisation. 4,500 years ago a state thrived in which it appears each contributor was valued equally. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qb5xx The evolution of the science of economics

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