In September 2014, the people of Scotland went to the polls to vote on whether to remain part of the UK or to become an independent country. In the run-up to the referendum, researchers at IFS examined how taxation, spending and long-run fiscal balance differed between Scotland and the UK as a whole and what the implications of this might have been for an independent Scotland.
More recently, we have examined new proposals from the SNP’s Sustainable Growth Commission, which set out a more cautious set of forecasts and approach to managing the public finances of an independent Scotland.
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