CalMac

[islaydarkblue]

Give me exact figures. Saying 'Scotland receives a lot more funding from Westminster than it contributes' isn't enough, I need data.

EDit - the data needs to be corroborated, your opinion isn't enough.

It has been well documented in the press and media about the Scottish Government budget deficit figures using the GERS figures where there is a budget deficit of over £12k per person in Scotland which has to be bankrolled via the Barnett Formula.
The Scottish Government civil servants managed to over estimate how much money the Scottish Government would receive from Scottish taxation per annum.
This shortfall has been met by the U.K. Government but it is not planning to continue doing this forever.
The income that the Scottish Government receives from Scottish taxation is deducted from the block grant from Westminster which in my opinion defeats the purpose of having a Scottish taxation scheme in the first place.
People living in Scotland earning more than £27,000 per annum pay more tax than people living in the rest of the U.K. and also earning more than £27,000 per annum.

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It has been well documented in the press and media about the Scottish Government budget deficit figures using the GERS figures where there is a budget deficit of over £12k per person in Scotland which has to be bankrolled via the Barnett Formula.
The Scottish Government civil servants managed to over estimate how much money the Scottish Government would receive from Scottish taxation per annum.
This shortfall has been met by the U.K. Government but it is not planning to continue doing this forever.
The income that the Scottish Government receives from Scottish taxation is deducted from the block grant from Westminster which in my opinion defeats the purpose of having a Scottish taxation scheme in the first place.
People living in Scotland earning more than £27,000 per annum pay more tax than people living in the rest of the U.K. and also earning more than £27,000 per annum.

I pay more than £12,000 PA into UK government coffers in the form of tax and NI which would be Scottish Government income if independent so it's not really bank rolling via The Barnett Formula is it? It's just returning my tax money to the authority that will spend it where it's being earned.

[islaydarkblue]

I pay more than £12,000 PA into UK government coffers in the form of tax and NI which would be Scottish Government income if independent so it's not really bank rolling via The Barnett Formula is it? It's just returning my tax money to the authority that will spend it where it's being earned.

The £12,000 per annum you pay in tax and national insurance goes to subside all the people who do not pay tax and national insurance in the U.K. including Scotland.
Thanks to the Barnett Formula people living in Scotland currently receive a lot of perks which people living in the rest of the U.K. do not receive.
Free eye tests, free prescriptions for everyone, free bus travel throughout the whole of Scptland for people aged over 60 plus young people I think up to the age of 22.
People aged over 66 in England receive free bus travel in their own local area, not England wide.
In an independent Scotland all these perks would have to be paid from the income received from taxation collected by the Scottish Government tax department as the income from the Barnett Formula would have ended.