On 22 February 2024 from 10:00 to 11:15
Online
via YouTube and Slido
Ahead of the final Scottish Parliament vote on the Budget, IFS researchers presented their analysis of the proposals.
Related documents
Download Max Warner's slides
PDF | 326.19 KB
Download Bee Boileau's slides
PDF | 369.51 KB
Download Kate Ogden's slides
PDF | 382.6 KB
In December, the Scottish government announced their Budget for 2024-25. This further raised tax rates on high earners relative to the rest of the UK, but implies real-terms cuts in public service spending compared to the latest plans for the current financial year. As the Budget progresses through the Scottish Parliament, the IFS are releasing a series of chapters from our second annual Scottish Budget Report looking in detail at Scottish tax and public spending policies and challenges in the coming year and beyond.
At this online event, ahead of the final Scottish Parliament vote on the Budget, IFS researchers brought together this work with presentations on:
- Tax and spending in 2024-25
- The medium-term funding outlook and choices
- Health spending, staffing and activity
- Higher education funding policy
This event is funded by
Chair
Associate Director
David is Head of Devolved and Local Government Finance. He also works on tax in developing countries as part of our TaxDev centre.
Speakers
Research Economist
Bee joined the IFS in 2021 as a Research Economist and works in the Retirement, Saving and Ageing sector.
Senior Research Economist
Kate joined the IFS in 2020 and works on local government finance and higher education.
Research Economist
Max joined the IFS in 2020 as a research economist in the Healthcare Sector, with a focus on the NHS labour force and adult social care in England.
Event details
- Publisher
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
More from IFS
Understand this issue
How could the Chancellor raise more tax?
podcast
What options does the Chancellor have for raising taxes in the October Budget?
28 August 2024
Can the new government fix the NHS?
podcast
We look at the key challenges facing the NHS, and what the new government could do to tackle them.
14 August 2024
Why are universities in financial trouble?
podcast
Why are universities struggling, what happens if they go bust and what can government do to help? What other challenges do the HE and FE sectors face?
21 August 2024
Policy analysis
Lower oil and gas prices hit Scotland’s underlying public finances in 2023-24
comment
Scotland’s notional fiscal deficit rose by £4.7 billion (2% of GDP) in 2023–24, as lower oil and gas prices hit North Sea revenues.
14 August 2024
Devolution may be sexier, but updating the local government finance system is vital
comment
Any plans for devolution need to be accompanied by updates to English councils’ hideously outdated funding allocations.
3 September 2024
Definitions of debt and the new government’s fiscal rules
comment
The new government has an ‘ironclad’ commitment to reduce government debt. It matters which definition of debt is used for the fiscal rule.
7 August 2024
Academic research
6th World Bank/IFS/ODI Public Finance Conference | Driving Progress: Public Finance and Structural Transformation
conference 26 September 2024 at 08:30
Online registrations are now open for the 6th World Bank/IFS/ODI Public Finance Conference.
Identifying network ties from panel data: Theory and an application to tax competition
journal article
Our identification and application show that the analysis of social interactions can be extended to economic realms where no network data exists.
9 September 2024
Focal pricing and pass-through
working paper
I show that the adoption and extent of focal pricing practices in an industry in general do not lower average pass-through of input cost changes.
21 August 2024
