How could the balance of taxes be optimally managed across the whole system, considering individuals, households and business?

Background

Our aim is to better analyse the environment in which the Scottish tax system operates, for example how the Scottish tax system interacts with the tax systems of the rest of the UK and how the Scottish tax system interacts with other policy areas such as social security and the labour market, so that we can improve tax outcomes for the people of Scotland.

Next steps

Get in touch with taxdivisionengagement@gov.scot

Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Scotlands tax strategy building tax principles

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