Scotland to receive £820m budget boost, Rachel Reeves says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Another of the key Budget announcements was on the two-child benefits cap, which means that parents can only claim Universal Credit or tax credits for their first two children, with a few exemptions.
55% : However, her plans will lead to more Scots paying income tax and National Insurance, as well as introducing levies on pension contributions.
55% : The Scottish government will announce its own tax and spending plans on 13 January - a month later than usual because the UK Budget was pushed back to November.
54% : A new mileage-based charge on electric and plug-in hybrid cars from April 2028 Ahead of the Budget, the chancellor had already announced an increase in the minimum wage for younger workers and an extension of the sugar tax - both of which apply across the UK.
54% : Reeves announced that a freeze on UK income tax thresholds will be extended until 2030. Scotland sets its own income tax rates, but changes to thresholds do have an impact north of the border.
50% : While some of the tax and spending decisions in the UK Budget do not directly affect Scotland - which has control in devolved areas such as health and education - many of the measures do.
50% : The Scottish government is in charge of setting the thresholds for all of these bands except for the lowest one, the personal allowance, which is the level at which people start paying tax.
48% : Extending the freeze on this threshold means that as salaries rise over time, more people reach an income level at which they start paying tax.
48% : Frozen thresholds mean more taxpayers paying higher rates in other parts of the UK, and a higher theoretical tax take for the UK government in Scotland - and therefore a bigger deduction from the block grant.
46% : This is because the UK government is able to deduct funds from the block grant that it estimates it would have received if tax-raising powers were not devolved to Holyrood.
43% : " She described her tax changes as "pragmatic".

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