Certain As Pod and Taxes

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The team deep dives into the Scottish budget and the new tax rate. Following Tuesday's budget, where Scottish Finance Secretary Shona Robison announced a new 45% tax rate on earnings between £75,000 and £125,140, as well as an increase to the top rate of tax and confirmation of plans for a council tax freeze, Phil Sim sits down with BBC correspondent David Henderson and Mairi Spowage, Director of the Fraser of Allander Institute, to go over the fine details of the Scottish budget, what it means for voters, and what impact it might have politically as parties consider the upcoming election.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds
0:02.4	You're listening to BBC Scotland
0:10.2	Hello, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast
0:15.7	that brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster.
0:19.8	It's just after 10 o'clock
0:21.1	on Wednesday the 20th of December. I'm Phil Sim, a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament
0:26.3	and today I'm joined by...
0:28.0	Mary Spowage, I'm the director of the Fraser of Allender Institute at the University
0:31.4	of Strathclyde. And I'm David Henderson, another BBC journalist based at the Scottish
0:36.9	Parliament.
0:41.7	And if that line-up is not a giveaway about what today's episode is about, then you maybe haven't listened to this podcast before.
0:44.1	Mari, you have.
0:44.9	You're back again for another budget episode.
0:46.9	I think you qualify as a friend of the show by now.
0:49.7	Thank you for coming to basically explain to us how maths works.
0:53.6	And David, is this your first pod-litical?
0:56.5	Yes, it is, in fact, yeah.
0:57.8	So a brand-new day for me, brand-new show.
1:00.6	So, yeah, delighted to join you.
1:02.5	David, who, you know, a long-time business correspondent at the BBC,
1:05.3	you've come over to the politics team,
1:06.9	and we have you here to talk about business, essentially.
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