Equality and Fairer Scotland Budget statement: easy read summary
The Easy-read version of the Equality and Fairer Scotland Budget Statement
Our decisions about tax and social security
Tax is money we pay to the Scottish Government when we:
- buy some things
- earn money
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Taxes are collected and used to pay for the things our communities need.
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Things like:
- health care
- roads
- police
- schools
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The Scottish Government have looked carefully at the decisions they made about:
- tax
- social security
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They have found out these things:
- the way Scotland organises tax and social security is now better for people who have less money than for people who have more money
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- the way Scotland organises tax and social security is more helpful for people with less money than the way it is done in other parts of the UK
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- 6 out of every 10 households in Scotland will be better supported
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- 8 out of every 10 households in Scotland will not pay any more tax this year
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- 2 out of every 10 households will pay more tax this year
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These are the households who are earning the most money.
Contact
Email: scottishbudget@gov.scot
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