This is true?
Scotland pays more in tax than it gets back in the block grant.
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This is true?
Scotland pays more in tax than it gets back in the block grant.
Of course it's true. We, as a nation contribute more to Wastemonster than Wastemonster gives us back in block grant - as do Wales and Norn Oirlund.
What the people that continually spout the 'we wouldn't be able to get the block grant if we were independent' forget is that more cash flows south in tax / NI etc. than comes north in block grant.
Have a think; would any economist, with even a fraction of financial nouse, ever agree to pay out more money than they take in? That only ends in one thing. Mind you - they must be close to that one thing the way the Tories spent money on (ahem) valuable PPE contracts.
I have read that £12 billion less in tax was raised in Scotland annually than it receives from the Barnett Formula.
However we have never heard from the SNP controlled Scottish Government exactly how much tax is raised in Scotland compared to the amount it receives from Westminster.
We can only assume that the total amount of tax raised in Scotland is less than the amount from the block grant because if it was more the SNP politicians would be ramming the information down our throats.
Is the block grant the only way that money flows from Westminster back to Wales NIreland and Scotland
Islay, we can only assume, is a very weak form of words. My concern is about the truth of the initial question. Deeranged is quite clear that on this specific measure the amount of tax Sent to Westminster is greater than the block grant. If we could agree that then perhaps we could agree that Scotland and the Scots gets money from Westminster in the form of other payments, perhaps directly to us as individuals?