I enclose an article from the Scotsman newspaper dated 11th May 2021 which quotes the Gers figures for 2018-19.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politi...ormula-3233129
Back then £66 Billion was raised in taxes in Scotland whilst the Scottish Government received £81 Billion from Westminster.
This means that an extra £15 Billion was handed over by the U.K. Government to the Scottish Government than they received in taxes.
You can be sure that if it was the other way and Scotland was contributing more in taxes than the Scottish Government received from Westminster under the rules of the Barnett Formula Nicola Sturgeon and the rest of the SNP MSPs would be ramming it down our throats.
Prior to the 2014 independence referendum the SNP politicians keep telling us that everything would be wonderful as they would be able to pull all sorts of extra levers in an independent Scotland.
Since Nicola Sturgeon became the First Minister there has been no mention about pulling all these extra levers because she knows this means taxing people to the hilt and having massive public sector cutbacks to balance the books.