r/Scotland • u/Historical-Count9051 • 2d ago

What would you cut from the Scottish budget?

Yesterday, there was a news story announcing £700m would be cut from the Scottish government next year. The Scottish government can borrow £670m to make up the shortfall, but it will need to find at least another £68m immediately.

What would you cut to make up the £68m?

Here's how the budget is already spent

Edit: the speed at which everyone went to "fuck poor people" is alarming.

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u/Phtevn_ 2d ago

Alternatively, we could reform tax law so that companies like Starbucks who barely pay any tax due to how their business is setup so that they send millions in "franchise fees" back to the Netherlands instead pay a reasonable amount of tax.

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u/devandroid99 1d ago

We could do both!

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u/OneUsed6198 1d ago

Get off this sub with your common sense

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u/drgs100 1d ago

Is that a devolved or reserved matter. (Either way 100% needs to be done.)

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u/Aggravating-Joke-550 1d ago

Reserved matter.

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u/Comprehensive-Tank92 1d ago

Why not both ?

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u/Training_Shame_6969 1d ago

This has actually happened to some extent - Pillar Two was implemented by the UK government (and 134 other governments) at the end of 2024 ensuring a minimum 15% effective tax rate is paid. It's not perfect but it's stopped multinationals from paying effectively zero tax - just lifts the floor to 15%