Page 3 | How will the new the new tax announcement affect Scottish taxes?

Fandangoes · 2022-09-23T09:57:08+00:00

Just that really - will the Scottish 46% rate automatically be abolished or does Nicola Sturgeon have control over that?

Apologies, wrong way round for the Scottish and English stamp duties. You get my drift.

DH and I moved just across the border 3 years ago and have never regretted it. Initially we commuted to our jobs in Scotland but found the lower salaries and lack of pay rises, plus the antiquated and poor quality transport links didn't make it stack up against slightly better salaries and easier commuting in the north of England. The NHS is definitely better here in terms of GP provision - we might just be lucky but it really is excellent. There are local hospitals with A&E and a nearly new regional hospital with plenty of specialists.

We both came from a farming background and went to university with an aim of working hard to gain a better standard of living. The prospect of living in a 3 bed new build semi in Prestonpans or Tranent paying high taxes isn't really what I want out of a country like Scotland. Here in the north of England, we have the countryside and miles of walking at our doorstep. Rural cottages are so rare within commuting distance of Edinburgh that we were looking at 500-600k for what we got for 325k here. It used to be that you put up with Scotland being more expensive to live in and poor transport infrastructure because it was compensated for by being able to live somewhere scenic/really nice. No longer.

Novichok2022 There is a lot of people with an aggressive ideology in Scotland now. I want to be free to have my own opinions

I honestly think that Scotland is the worst country in Western Europe right now. Its partly the fault of the UK that devolution was done so badly with so few constitutional protections, but a lot of it is home grown. I don't really find the prospect of living in a beautiful but increasingly inaccessible country with large swathes of land rewilded to suit the likes of Anders Povlsen and his ilk (with government funding too!), or have my access banned by Nature.Scot on the whim of its part time Chief Executive with personal business interests in the luxury tourism market.

It sometimes makes me think that the present regime is out to carve up Scotland for itself and its cronies, almost acting like the high handed clearance landlords of the past. What is being done to the population of the islands, only partly due to their lack of fixed links and failure to plan for ferries, should be criminalised IMHO. And lets not talk about whats going on (does anybody know?) in the shitshow that is Aberdeen city centre, surrounded as it is now by its surrounding new towns to rival the Livingstons of the past?