Scottish Budget 2025 to 2026: Public Attitudes to Tax
A summary of the public attitudes data and stakeholder priorities on tax policy that were collected during the Scottish Government’s pre-Budget engagement programme.
Tax Strategy and Scottish Budget 2025-26 – Stakeholder Engagement
Ministerial Roundtables
Ahead of each Scottish Budget announcement, Scottish Ministers chair a series of pre-Budget roundtables with a range of stakeholders to understand their views on taxation ahead of making decisions on tax policy. A thematic summary of what was discussed is included below
For the 2025-26 Scottish Budget, there were two roundtables, one chaired by Shona Robison MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government and one chaired by Ivan McKee MSP, Minister for Public Finance. Both sessions invited stakeholders to offer views on the Scottish Budget as well as the Tax Strategy.
The organisations which attended these roundtables are:
- Institute of Directors
- Low Income Tax Reform Group / Chartered Institute of Taxation
- Child Poverty Action Group
- Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland
- Deloitte
- Poverty and Inequality Commission
- Revenue Scotland
- Institute of Public Policy Research
- Scottish Women’s Budget Group
- Oxfam Scotland
- Revenue Scotland
- CBI
- Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals
- Federation of Small Businesses
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